Journalist & Filmmaker Saul Landau, 77, Dies; Chronicled Cuban Revolution For Decades

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8. The truth about Cuba's prisons is told by released inmates

Not by a casual foreign visitor taken to a Potemkin jail. And I tend to think she's just another one of those ivory tower employees of the extreme left propaganda system. She is clearly not an unbiased observer. For example, here's some of what she has been engaged in:

Gender, Race & Participatory Democracy in Bolivarian Venezuela
featuring Fernando Vegas, Venezuelan Supreme Court Justice, J. Soffiyah Elijah of the Harvard Criminal Law Institute and Barbara Dougan of the National Lawyers Guild"

I was curious when I saw the title so I started looking up Venezuela Justice System using a search engine and found this:

I'm Hugo Chávez's prisoner, says jailed judge
Detained without trial in a notorious prison for the past year, María Lourdes Afiuni lambasts colleagues for their silence

This is an article in the Guardian, written in 2011.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/14/chavez-prisoner-maria-lourdes-afiuni

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/14/chavez-prisoner-maria-lourdes-afiuni

It seems to me there's a set up which goes back in time, whereby professors and lawyers with a Stalinist leaning provide aid and propaganda cover for extreme left regimes which apply the Stalinist dictatorship centralized command system. I defend their right to do, write, believe whatever they want, but I'm too cynical and experienced to fall for material written by such persons defending regimes such as Cuba's. They lack credibility.