Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique
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Arnaldo Ramos Lauzurique is a Cuban independent economist.[1] Ramos Lauzerique and Marta Beatriz Roque founded the Instituto de Economía.[2] The group of economists has exposed how the communist government uses false statistics when reporting to the people and to international organizations.[2]
He was imprisoned during the Black Spring in 2003 and Amnesty International recognized him as a prisoner of conscience.[3]
In August 2005 political prisoners Adolfo Fernández Sainz and Alfredo Domínguez Batista went on a hunger strike after Ramos was beaten by guards.[4]
Ramos was freed in November 2010.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ "Síntesis biográfica de Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique". Payolibre.com. http://www.payolibre.com/PRESO-%20Arnaldo%20Ramos%20Lauzurique.htm.
- ^ a b "Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique". Net for Cuba. http://www.netforcuba.org/cubapp/Prs/ArnaldoRamosEN.htm.
- ^ "Cuba: Prisoners of conscience: 71 longing for freedom". Amnesty International. http://amnesty.ca/resource_centre/reports/view.php?load=arcview&article=2311&c=Resource%20Centre%20Reports.
- ^ "Síntesis biográfica de Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique". http://www.payolibre.com/PRESO-%20Arnaldo%20Ramos%20Lauzurique.htm.
- ^ "Cuba frees political prisoner who refused exile deal". BBC News. 14 November 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11752157.
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