After the amnesties and pardon laws of the late nineteen-eighties and early nineties were declared unconstitutional, around ten years ago, investigations of violations during the dictatorship were reopened, and thousands of former military and police officers were brought to trial.
He was freed under the pardon laws, and died in 1994.
The law pardon that the Cuban regime has propitiated is nothing new, nor original.
The mere fact that the influx of new prisoners exceeds the number of ones who received this law pardon demonstrates the decaying state of this once prosperous island.
However, the media spreads the recent law pardon, as a step towards a more open society, without an analysis of the details behind their penitentiary system and the governing laws.
Furthermore, the number of prisoners who obtained the law pardon represents only 4% of the total imprisoned population, which fluctuates from 70,000 to 80,000 people, according to some estimates.
"If President Trump uses his power to pardon a discredited law enforcement official who persistently engaged in illegal racial profiling of the Latino community, it will not be a dog whistle to the so-called 'alt right' and white supremacists, but a bull horn," Vanita Gupta, who previously headed the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, said in a statement Monday.
"If President Trump uses his power to pardon a discredited law enforcement official who persistently engaged in illegal racial profiling of the Latino community, it will not be a dog whistle to the so-called 'alt right' and white supremacists, but a bull horn," Gupta said.
This "gracious" law pardoned does not fix the totalitarian law which condemns any commercial activity, such as selling or buying food, construction materials, or any writing that could go against the ideology of the system, such as a pamphlet containing the Human Right's Declaration.
While Mr. Putin has suggested on numerous occasions that a convict must admit guilt in requesting a pardon, the law in fact does not require such an admission, or even that a petition for a pardon be filed.
