Mario Chanes de Armas is not Castros only hostage. About a year ago Major Orestes Lorenzo of the Cuban Air Force landed his Mig23 in Florida and asked for political asylum. Now Major Lorenzos wife Vicky and children Reyniel and Alejandro have been granted visas to come to the United States. But the Cuban Government has informed them that they may not leave Cuba. We must continue to work for freedom of emigration and the reunification of the Lorenzo family. Also this year. more revelations have emerged concerning the Cuban regimes abuse of psychiatry. Jose Luis Alvarado. just 16 years old. tried to flee Cuba by gaining asylum in the Colombian Embassy. He failed. and the Cuban Government sent him to Havanas Psychiatric Hospital where he was given electroshock treatment and psychotropic drugs. Roberto Bahamonde. a human rights activist who has been repeatedly denied the right to emigrate. was also sent to the same psychiatric ward. There he saw beatings. insane inmates wandering around naked. and walls and floors covered with excrement. When his wife complained to the hospital director. she was told there was nothing he could dothat ward was under the control of the state security police.
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