Villa Marista
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Villa Marista is a prison in Havana, Cuba, notorious for its detention of political prisoners by the Cuban national security agency.[1][2]
Its prisoners have included dissident Vladimiro Roca and politician Jesús Escandell.
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Villa Marista was originally a Catholic school for boys and a seminary for future Marist brothers. Prior to the Cuban Revolution, the school was run by the Marist Brothers. After the revolutionary government expropriated the school and grounds from the Marist Brothers, the brothers were spread to other Marist schools around the world, including Miami, Florida USA, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
The Marist Brothers, in addition to the three schools they had in Havana Cuba, also had presence in some other cities in the country like Cienfuegos, Cardenas, Remedio, Caibarien, Matanzas, Ciego de Avila, Santa Clara, Camaguey and Holguin.
References
- ↑ "political prisons in Cuba".
- ↑ "Report on Cuban political prisoners". Amnesty International. Archived from the original on 2006-12-04. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
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