Víctor Rolando Arroyo Carmona is a

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n geographer and journalist who was imprisoned on March 18, 2003, and sentenced to 26 years in prison, according to the

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. Carmona ended a 25 hunger strike on October 4, 2005, when he was removed from the prison and placed in a hospital in critical condition. He was a journalist for the independent news agency Unión de Periodistas y Escritores Cubanos Independientes and directed a local independent library belonging to

Varela project The Varela Project () is a project that was started in 1998 by Oswaldo Payá of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) and named after Felix Varela, a Cuban religious leader. Many members were imprisoned during the Black Spring in 2003. The Va ...

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