Raul puts blindfold on one of his own soldiers in the Sierra Maestra condemned to death in a 'trial.'
WHO IS RAUL CASTRO?
For immediate release.
August 1, 2006, Summit, New Jersey. Fidel Castro has reportedly delegated his
duties as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party,
Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, and President of the Council of State to
his brother Raúl.
Cuba Archive is systematically documenting the loss of life during the Cuban
Revolution. Based on the work of our Research Director, Armando Lago, Ph.D, and
on preliminary field work, the project has already documented 228 victims of
extrajudicial assassinations in attempts to escape Cuba. The deaths involve
mostly civilians, including many children, and have been perpetrated by Cuban
border guards under the command of Raúl Castro as Cuba’s Defense Minister. This
tally, believed to be highly underestimated, already exceeds the number of total
assassinations in Berlin Wall crossings by one.
Raúl Castro, in addition, is directly responsible for 550 executions in 1959
alone, the first year after the Castro takeover. In Santiago de Cuba on the
first fifteen days of January 1959, he had 278 members of the Batista government
and of the Armed Forces executed. Just on January 12th, Raúl ordered the
execution without trial of over one hundred men. Policeman Benito Cortés
Maldonado, an American citizen by birth, was one of the victims.
During the 47 years of repressive rule by the Castro brothers, thousands of
Cubans have been executed or assassinated. Scores more have died at sea trying
to flee. The Castro regime is also responsible for countless deaths worldwide in
international subversion and wars of “liberation.”
Cuba Archive is an initiative of the Free Society Project, Inc., a non-profit
corporation established in Washington, D.C. in 2001 dedicated to advancing human
rights primarily through research and publications. For additional information,
see www.CubaArchive.org.
Contact:
Maria C. Werlau Armando Lago
Tel. 973.219-7000 Tel. 305.665-8026
CubaArchive@aol.com
OrbisConsutl@aol.com