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Félix Navarro Rodríguez (* 1953)

If within ten years we have not finished with communism, Cuba is going to disappear

  • Cuban dissident born on July 10, 1953

  • for 22 years he was a primary and secondary school teacher, later director of The Aurora Cruise Basic School

  • in 1988, after his return from the Isle of Pines to Matanzas, he changed his mind about the government system, seeing the problems of supply in Matanzas

  • in 1992 he was imprisoned for the crime of enemy propaganda, after having hung anti-Castro posters, and was forbidden to continue exercising his profession as a teacher

  • in 2003 he was indicted in the Black Spring of Cuba and was part of the Group of 75

  • he was sentenced to 30 years of deprivation of liberty

  • in 2011 he received his extrapenal license

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