Five years after the Castro government cracked down on the independent press, more than 20 journalists remain behind bars for the crime of free expression.
Committee to Protect Journalists
Special Reports
blackspring
Interviews by Borja Bergareche
CPJ asked Manuel Vázquez Portal, a Cuban writer, poet,
and journalist swept up in the 2003 crackdown, to describe the year he
spent in prison before being freed in 2004. He chose to describe his
imprisonment in nightmare imagery. Vázquez Portal now lives and works in Miami.
