Posted by Ilya Somin: Interesting Interview with Cuban Dissident Armando Valladares: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_08_10-2008_08_16.shtml#1218942723
The Wall Street Journal has [1]an interesting interview with Cuban dissident Armando Valladares, an opponent of Castro's communist dictatorship who was imprisoned by the regime for some 22 years. Valladares' memoir [2]Against All Hope is one of the better books produced by dissidents from communist states. I discussed the Cuban government's massive human rights violations (the scale of which is still rarely appreciated) in [3]this series of posts, where I also explained why its mostly mythical successes in providing health care do not come close to offsetting the harm caused by its political and economic repression. References 1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121884437497345985.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries 2. http://www.amazon.com/Against-All-Hope-Memoir-Castros/dp/1893554198 3. http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_02_17-2008_02_23.shtml#1203552205 _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
