Cuba: Castro's got friends in low places

CUBA. (Information Bridge Cuba-Miami). According to the note received from El Corojo prison in Guantanamo, political prisoner Alberto Martinez Fernandez receives threats from a convicted criminal. The man threatens to kill him if Martinez continues to speak against Fidel Castro or about revolution during the walk in the prison courtyard.

The note was distributed by the national coordinator of Democratic Party November 30 Ada Kaly Marquez Abascal. In the note Martinez points to prisoner Juan Laukti Lipez who is serving a 20-year sentence for murder and robbery. Lipez has already threatened to two prisoners and claims that he has an authorization for any actions from Major Reyes Cobas of state security organs.

Martinez says that state security officers make sure that political prisoners are under constant threat of death.