LatinNews Daily - 11 March 2010

Arias calls out Cuba

Central America 11 March 2010 Modified: 11 March 2010 154 views

Development: On 10 March the outgoing president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, called on the Cuban government to release its political prisoners and highlighted the case of the journalist Guillermo FariƱas, who has been on hunger strike since 24 February in protest at the death (on 23 February) from an 85-day hunger strike of an imprisoned dissident, Orlando Zapata Tamayo.

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