Political prisoners start hunger strike in Santa Clara

Hunger strikes by Cuban political prisoners sadden me, for protest by suicide is no way to defeat the dictatorship. Life is much more valuable than that, and the struggle for Cuban liberty needs these brave men and women to be alive and fighting. But I do not condemn the condemned, because for many prisoners, all they have to give, the only thing with which they have to protest, is their lives. And by putting... [read full story]