Enrique Garcia Cuevas
Political prisoner suffers biological and psychological experiments, and he dies in strike of hunger.


The political prisoner Enrique Garcia Cuevas, when he is transferred to the prison of Boniato and many other political prisoners are taken by the communist to carry out their psychological and biological experiments. These experiments consisted of isolating them in Drawers, feeding them food with

high levels of salt, and weeks later without salt, putting them in cold rooms, violent interrogations, and other times treating them with compassionate friendship, in short, brutal methods for their studies of human behavior under those conditions.

From Boniato they take Garcia Cuevas to the prison of Manacas, and there the communist psychologists continue treating him, and although with an already affected psyche, ever maintaining the patriotic spirit of rebelliousness, Enrique makes use of a hunger strike, his only means to maintain his fight against the Marxists.

From Manacas they transfer him to Santa Clara and Enrique's calvary continues, until he was placed with common prisoners, after weeks in his strike of hunger, he dies July 24, 1973.


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