I have tried, me personally, to get a visa to go to Cuba, primarily to go to the prisons and to try, if possible, to meet with the political prisoners there, to meet with Fidel Castro to raise directly--or his brother Raul--the issue of human rights, and particularly the mistreatment, the torture, the degradation that is suffered by political prisoners in Cuba.
Smith expresses his efforts to address human rights issues in Cuba directly.
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