1. Having seized power on January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro, following the tradition of Vladimir Lenin, turned his nation into a huge slave camp. Half a million human beings have passed through Castro’s gulags. Since Cuba’s population is only around eleven million, that gives Castro’s despotism the highest political incarceration rate, per capita, on earth.
1. Firing squads have carried out more than fifteen thousand executions.
2. The Castro regime's barbarity is best epitomized by the Camilo Cienfuegos plan, the program of horrors followed in the forced-labor camp on the Isle of Pines. Forced to work almost naked, prisoners were made to cut grass with their teeth and to sit in latrine trenches for long periods of time. Pascal Fontaine, “Cuba: Interminable Totalitarianism in the Tropics,” in the Black Book of Communism, p. 647-665