In a cramped ground floor office in Madrid, Alejandro Gonzalez Raga recalls the day of his arrest in Cuba, 13 years ago.
There was a knock at the door. It was Cuban state security.
“They said, ‘You are detained in the name of the people,'” he recalls. “Well that’s one I’d never heard before -‘in the name of the people.’ Then they took me away.”
Gonzalez, now 58, is a Cuban opposition activist. By definition that’s illegal in Cuba, where the Communist Party is the only political entity allowed.
He was arrested on March 18, 2003, in his hometown of Camaguey, one of 75 Cuban journalists, librarians and human rights activists arrested by Fidel Castro’s regime over two days.
After years of mediation by the Catholic Church and the Spanish government, the detainees were freed in 2008 and 2010 -under the condition that some go into exile in Spain.
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