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In the midst of an energetic collapse due to pressure and blockade imposed by the United States, the Government of Cuba has announced the release of 2,010 prisoners. Despite the context in which the pardon is recorded, one of the largest in decades, the Castro regime has described it as “humanitarian and sovereign solidarity gesture”framing it in the celebrations of Holy Week.
“This humanitarian and sovereign gesture was based on a careful analysis of the characteristics of the acts committed by those sanctioned, good behavior maintained in prisonhaving extinguished an important part of his sanction and state of health,” is explained in a statement from the island Government released by official media.
The Cuban regime has not offered details about the identity of those released, but has indicated that among the more than 2,000 released prisoners “there are young people, women, adults over 60 years of age, those who reach the end of early release in the last semester and next year; as well as foreigners and Cuban citizens residing abroad“.
However, people who “committed crimes of sexual assault, pedophilia with violence, murder, manslaughter, drugs, theft and slaughter of livestock, robbery with violence or force with the use of weapons or minor victims, corruption of minors, crimes against authorityrecidivists and multiple recidivists and some who were previously pardoned and committed new crimes.
Human rights organizations denounce that the communist regime keeps in its prisons hundreds of political prisoners.
The Russian tanker ‘Anatoly Kolodkin’ in the port of Matanzas.
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On March 12, the Havana Executive already released 51 prisoners who had served “a significant part of their sentence and maintained good conduct in prison.” This decision was framed in “the spirit of good will, close and fluid relations between the Cuban State and the Vatican“.
The Castro regime has stressed that this Thursday’s “is the fifth pardon carried out by the Cuban Government since 2011, with which more than 11,000 people have benefited”: “This is the second release of people deprived of liberty this year, in the context of the religious celebrations of Holy Week, which constitutes a common practice in our criminal justice system and the humanitarian trajectory of the Revolution“.
The majority of those released until now had participated in the anti-government protests of 11-J and they were serving sentences of between six and 18 years in prison for crimes such as public disorder, contempt, attack and sedition.
The first releases from this process have coincided with the announcement by the Cuban Government that it had begun a dialogue with representatives of the US Administration, which has indicated Castroism as its next objective after the capture of the Venezuelan autocrat. Nicolas Maduro. However, Havana has at no time linked both issues.
The new pardon is also recorded a week after the arrival in Venezuelan ports of a Russian oil tanker with 100,000 tons of crude oil. A shipment that will bring some relief to the shortage crisis which has caused numerous and extensive blackouts in recent months. The White House has denied a change in policy, justifying the authorization by the “humanitarian needs of the Cuban people.”