May 02, 2005
Cuba has beautiful beaches
Which these guys may never see again, much less enjoy:
PLACETAS, Cuba - April 29 (María Elena Alpízar Ariosa, Grupo Decoro / www.cubanet.org) - Gisela Delgado Sablón says that her husband, Héctor Palacios Ruiz, a political dissident serving a 25-year prison sentence, is deteriorating.Palacios Ruiz, 63, is being held at a hospital unit in the Combinado del Este prison in Havana. He is suffering from arterial and lung problem.
Palacios Ruiz's wife said that Dr. Amílcar J. Lominchal, head of the hospital unit, agrees that the prisoner's health is threatening his life.
Palacios Ruiz was one of the 75 dissidents arrested in March of 2003.
SANTA CLARA, Cuba - April 29 (Jannice Broche, Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org) - The mother of political prisoner Arturo Suárez Ramos, imprisoned since 1987 on charges of piracy after he tried to illegally leave the island, is in poor health, his mother says.Suárez Ramos is serving a 30-year sentence in Havana's Combinado del Este prison.
Isabel Ramos Martínez says that he son's weight had dropped to 108 pounds when she last saw him in March. He suffers from ulcers and other medical problems. He was also injured in a scuffle with fellow prisoners.
Not that they would be alowed to enter those beaches anyway, they are, after all, Cubans living in Cuba. Beaches are for people better than them. Beaches are for tourists.
Posted by Val Prieto at May 2, 2005 05:55 AM
Comments
Widows and pirates. Sick, absolutely sick.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at May 2, 2005 08:19 AM
Where is the worlds outrage at this apartheid? The massive human rights abuses? The death and destruction? Nada
Posted by: Kathleen at May 2, 2005 04:44 PM
It may have lovely beaches, but also some lousey sons-of-beeches, no?
Posted by: howarde at May 2, 2005 05:06 PM