How Many Prisoners Does Castro Hold?

A triumphant revolution has to use repression because with its triumph the class struggle does not end. . . . We have no mercy for those who take weapons against us; it does not matter if they are weapons of destruction or ideological weapons —Ernesto Guevara, El Mundo (Havana), October 1,1963

Among those who have studied the Cuban revolution, few have focused on the tens of thousands of people in prison for “political crimes.” Last Ma...