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Cuban prisoners say they shared cells with rats
Associated Press/One News Now ^
| July 15, 2010
| CIARAN GILES
Posted on 07/15/2010 12:33:29 PM PDT by jackspyder
Rats and diseases infested Cuban prison cells so badly that some inmates tried to kill themselves and other did themselves harm, according to freed political prisoners who spoke Thursday in Spain.
Those who spoke were among 11 political prisoners released this week and flown to Spain to start new lives. At a press conference in Madrid, they painted a squalid picture of the prison conditions they had endured.
"The hygiene and health situations in prisons throughout the island of Cuba are not terrible, they are worse than terrible," freed dissident Julio Cesar Galvez said.
"We had to live with rats and cockroaches ... with excrement. It's not a lie," he said...
He said that in the prison of Villa Clara there were more than 1,500 inmates with up to 40 prisoners in cells measuring 3 square meters (32 sq. feet)...
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Cuba; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: cuba; cuban; jail; michaelmoore; prisoners; seanpenn
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that's the type of treatment a nation's citizens can expect under the utopia of communism
To: jackspyder
Cuban prisoners say they shared cells with ratsWhat prisoner hasn't?
It's the only pet allowed.
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:36:25 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: jackspyder
And yet ANSWER Communists complain about the treatment of prisoners of war at Gitmo.
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:36:43 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: jackspyder
Speaking of ‘Cuba’....if this had been something about Gitmo, my first question would be, “Were any of the rats molested?”
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:37:32 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
To: jackspyder
“We had to live with rats and cockroaches ... with excrement. It’s not a lie,” he said...
Sounds like a good reason to stay out of prison.
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:37:47 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: UCANSEE2
Charlie Manson had a pet cockroach. There are other prisoners who’ve “bonded” with the bugs in their cells.
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:38:06 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: jackspyder
Maybe Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone could go explain to them how wonderful Castro is.
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:39:06 PM PDT
by
Hugin
(Remember the first rule of gunfighting...have a gun..-- Col. Jeff Cooper)
To: Hugin
I had to share a room with my brother for seventeen years. And he was a pig.
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:40:00 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(I lived in VT for four years. That was enough.)
To: UCANSEE2
In Cuba you can either be a prisoner in prison or outside of prison; but either way, you are a prisoner.
For myself they would either have to kill me or throw me in prison; or wave to me as I sailed off to Florida on whatever I could make seaworthy.
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:41:44 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
To: UCANSEE2
Did you miss that these guys were political prisoners?
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:42:18 PM PDT
by
Hugin
(Remember the first rule of gunfighting...have a gun..-- Col. Jeff Cooper)
To: jackspyder
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:42:51 PM PDT
by
JPG
(Mr. Gore, or is it Mr. Stone or Mr. Woody? Whatever, you're under arrest.)
To: jackspyder
Cuban prisoners say they shared cells with rats
Kwami Kilpatrick's cellmate oddly has the same complaint........
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:42:54 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Peanut butter was just peanut butter until I found Free Republic.........)
To: jackspyder
Those are the good cells.
To: jackspyder
Obama liberals romanticize Castro for a reason.
They dream of the day conservative Christians are loaded into cattle cars for a trip to the same type of prison.
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:43:48 PM PDT
by
stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
To: jackspyder
But how can this be, Comrade? Everyone knows Cuba is a socialist paradise.
/sarc
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:45:42 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
To: jackspyder
What do they have to complain about?
They had excellent socialized Health Care which according to the Hollywood Elite and the communist wing of the Dimocrat Party is better than the US capitalist health care system.
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:50:13 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
To: jackspyder
Cuban prison or Cuban hospital?
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:50:42 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(We couldn't keep the commandments when there was only ONE!)
To: jackspyder
What can I say? There are rats in all prisons. Besides, it takes one top know one!
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:55:44 PM PDT
by
Paperdoll
(REGISTER TO VOTE THEN DO IT RIGHT!)
To: jackspyder
What's he complaining about? Cubans have Universal Health Care!!
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:56:51 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
(I can see November from my house!)
To: jackspyder
I feel their pain. Here the rats even vote.
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posted on
07/15/2010 12:59:33 PM PDT
by
LibWhacker
(America awake!)
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