A Real Gulag at Guantanamo Next Door

For almost five years now the U.S Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, has
been highlighted by the international news media after 600 militants
of the Afghanistan's dictatorial group known as The Taliban and the
terrorist organization Al-Qaeda were jailed in the base for
interrogation. Just a few miles north of the U.S. Naval Base you will
find Cuba, a small country ruled by a Communist regime since 1959.
Since the early 1960s, more than 100,000 Cubans have been jailed for
political reasons, and about 12,000 have been executed by firing
squads or killed by security forces. According to Amnesty
International there are 400 political prisoners in Cuba at this very
moment, most of them "prisoners of conscience" whose crime has been to
become human rights activists. They are serving sentences of up to 28
years after well known undue processes.

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