5 Feet of Fury

Jim Goad: Castro’s utopian hellhole

Jim Goad writes:

Political prisoners tell horror stories of having guards urinate in their mouths, of laughing guards beating them in front of their screaming families, of rampant unsanitary conditions where inmates “defecated parasites 6 centimeters long,” of female inmates bleeding from their vaginas and rectums, and of being tortured with psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy and communist propaganda blasted at deafening volumes.