Fidel Castro’s Victims of His Revolution Documented

by mpress | January 4, 2008 at 06:16 am

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Does anyone know how it feels to want freedom so badly that
they would risk everything to try to escape their homeland not knowing
if the Cuban Coast Guard or the sharks will kill you before you reach
freedom..

Ten-year-old Juan Mario Gutiérrez’s 1994 death is case No. 8500 in the newly released database.

After more than a decade of painstaking research by two Cuban exiles with the nonprofit group Cuba Archive, for the first time their results are available in a searchable database on the Web. The Truth and Memory Project database at www.cubaarchive.org was launched Jan. 1, thanks to a $52,000 grant from Freedom House, an advocacy organization founded by Eleanor Roosevelt.

”This is one more way to shed light on something a lot of people do not know about,” said Juan Mario’s grandfather, Jorge A. García Mas, who arrived here from Cuba in 1999. “The first thing I did was look for my family’s names. How is it not going to hurt to see their names on there?” Source: MH