ANNEX I
Partial list of persons sentenced in Cuba
Name |
Sentence |
Charge |
Real reason for sentence |
Place of detention |
Matías Alonso Aquino, lawyer | 30 years | Distributing propaganda and speaking against the government in public | Failing to belong to any government organization. He was forbidden to defend himself in court | Pinar del Río |
Alberto Alvarez de la Campa, pharmacist | 20 years | Conspiring against the government | Disagreeing with the government | Teacher-training school, Havana |
Enrique Arias Arias, student | 9 years | Planning a clandestine escape from Cuba | Not being involved in government activities |
Guanajay Prison |
Nerber or Belausaran López, office worker | 20 years | Attempting to subvert the powers of the State | Having belonged to the Army before the Revolution | La Cabaña Havana |
Enrique Borges Rodríguez, worker | 20 years | Belonging to counter-revolutionary groups | Not belonging to revolutionary organizations | Manacas, Las Villas |
Rolando Bone Trueba, baker | 12 years | Being in disagreement with the regime | Not belonging to revolutionary organizations | La Cabaña Havana |
José Laura Blanco Muñiz, driver | 20 years | Conspiracy and distributing propaganda | Being a practicing Catholic and anti-Communist | La Cabaña Havana |
Rolando Borges Paz, merchant | 20 years | Conspiracy | Not belonging to revolutionary organizations | Teacher training school, Havana |
Diosdado Camejo, farmer | 30 years | Conspiracy | Failing to join revolutionary organizations | Morón P…son, Camague |
Roberto Cardes, worker | 15 years |
Engaging in propaganda against the government |
Being an active Catholic and not belonging to revolutionary organizations | La Cabaña Havana |
J.I. Carreño, newspaperman |
20 years | Writing against the government | Not belonging to revolutionary organizations | La Cabaña Havana |
Mamerto Casana Pérez, worker | 30 years | Counter-revolutionary activities | Not belonging to revolutionary organizations | Melena Camp, Havana |
Dr. Pablo Castellanos Caballero, newspaperman and teacher | 12 years | Conspiracy | His anti-government position. He has already served his sentence, but continues in custody and incommunicado | La Cabaña Havana |
Lutgardo Castellanos Vázquez, student | 20 years | Giving assistance to armed groups | Not cooperating with the authorities | Security Camp No. … Manacas, Las Villas |
José Luis Colina Alemán, office worker | 20 years | Anti-state activities | Having belonged to the Army before the Revolution | Security Camp No. … Manacas, Las Villas |
Alberto Cruz Cancio, veterinary surgeon | 30 years | Rebellion | Not belonging to revolutionary organizations | La Cabaña Havana |
Joaquín Chanying González, mechanic | 15 years | Conspiracy | Being in the same place or province where various arrests for political reasons were made | Valle … Camp, Havana |
Georgina Cid Crespo, Secretary | 20 years | Conspiring against the security of the State | Not belonging to revolutionary organizations | “Amanacer” Farm Havana |
Armando Cubría Ramos, salesman | 30 years | Conspiring against the State | Having belonged to the Army | Guanajay Prison |
Ernesto de la Fe, newspaperman | 15 years | Repressing the revolutionary movement | Having been a Minister in the Government of General Batista and having been a prominent anti-Communist | La Cabaña, Havana |
Roberto del Toro Trometa, farmer | 20 years | Distributing anti-government propaganda | Having belonged to the Armed Forces of Cuba before the revolutionary movement | “San Severino” Castle Matanzas |
Juan Vicente Delgado, soldier | 20 years | Distributing anti-government propaganda | Having belonged to the Armed Forces of Cuba before the revolutionary movement | “San Severino” Castle Matanzas |
Juan de Dios González Ruiz, worker | 20 years | Making an attempt on the life of a revolutionary leader | Not belonging to pro-government organizations | Beniato Prison Oriente Province |
Aroldo Hernández Luege, student | 30 years | Anti-Communist activities among the farmers | Being an active Christian and anti-Communist | Guanajay Prison Havana |
José Antonio Jiménez Caballero, office worker | 30 years | Anti-Communist activities among the farmers | Being an active Christian and anti-Communist | Guanajay Prison Havana |
Félix Lima, worker | 20 years | Crimes against the State | Not belonging to government | Melena Camp, Havana |
Fabián Luzardo Díaz worker | 12 years | Conspiring against the established order | He was denounced as a dangerous person and an anti-Communist without any evidence | Luis Lazo
Pinar del Río |
Pelaxo Lasa Parla, electrician | 32 years | For acts allegedly committed before the Revolution | Having belonged to the Army | Pinar del Río prison |
Raúl Ledón Pérez, worker | 20 years | Crimes against the State | Not belonging to revolutionary organizations | No. 4 Secur. Camp, Manacas Las Villas |
René Macial Matos, missionary | 20 years | Crimes against the State | Being an active Christian | La Cabaña, Havana |
César Páez Sánchez, soldier | 20 years | Conspiring against the powers of the State | Proposing peaceful changes in the revolutionary line | La Cabaña, Havana |
Newton Rafael Orihuela del Toro, teacher | 15 years | Conspiring against the State | Not belonging to revolutionary organizations | Melena Camp, Havana |
Arístides Pérez Montañez, merchant | 20 years | Conspiring against the powers of the State | Not cooperating with the government | Boniato Prison |
Gabriel Lupo Pichardo González, newspaperman | 20 years | Conspiring against the powers of the State | Not cooperating with the government | Guanajay Prison, Havana |
José Piloto Mora, student | 30 years | Conspiring against the Cuban State | Being a Catholic and not belonging to revolutionary organizations | Pinar del Río, Prison |
Lino Guillermo Rivero Acosta, pharmacist | 10 years | Conspiring against the powers of the State | Not belonging to revolutionary organizations | Pinar del Río Prison |
Orlando Pérez Oliva, merchant | 20 years | Conspiring against the powers of the State | Not belonging to revolutionary organizations | La Cabaña, Havana |
Pedro Pedraza Portal, driver | Indefinite | Conspiring against the powers of the State | Being an anti-Communist. No evidence that he had tried to leave Cuba illegally was produced | Alambradas, Pinar del Río |
Rubén Pérez Ríos, worker | 20 years | Conspiring against the State | Not belonging to revolutionary organizations | La Cabaña, Havana. |
Luis Pérez Días, office worker | 20 years | Conspiring against the State | He was merely suspected of not being in favor of the government. | La Cabaña, Havana |
José Piloto Mora, student | 30 years | Conspiring against the State | Being a Catholic and not belonging to revolutionary organizations | Pinar del Río Prison |
Carlos Pons Wottu, office worker | 20 years | Conspiring against the State | Not cooperating with the government | Guanajay Prison |
Luis María Rodríguez Regueira, student | 30 years | Conspiring against the powers of the State | Considered as a dangerous counter-revolutionary element; he did not belong to any government organization | Pinar del R. Prison |
Rafael Turino Ibánez worker | 20 years | Conspiring against the powers of the State | Not belonging to any government organization and being a professed Catholic | No. 4 Security Camp, Manacas, Las Villas Province |