Pedro Luis Boitel (1931–1972) was a Cuban poet and dissident who opposed the governments of both Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro. In 1961, the regime sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
Boitel died during a hunger strike in prison in 1972 while serving a sentence handed down by the communist regime.
Read more about Pedro Luis Boitel: Before The Revolution, Jail and Hunger Strike
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“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)