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	Armando Valladares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Armando Valladares was a political prisoner and prisoner of conscience in Cuba.
		Valladares was jailed in 1960, at age 23, when the new regime under Fidel Castro began to crack down on dissidents.
		The Cuban government has described Valladares as "a traitor." After the campaign for Valladares' release began, and after he was adopted by Amnesty International as a Prisoner of Conscience, the Cuban government claimed that Valladares was a former member of the secret police of Fulgencio Batista, who was toppled by the 1959 Cuban revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armando_Valladares (582 words)

	SURVIVING CASTRO'S TORTURES - New York Times
		Valladares speculates that when the truth about Cuba's political prisoners is made known, ''mankind will feel the revulsion it felt when the crimes of Stalin were brought to light.'' It is not too tough a judgment.
		Valladares gives us is a picture of the hell that was the Cuba he lived in, and the story of how one man's deep Christian faith enabled him to sustain the most evil treatment and never abandon hope, no matter how fruitless hope appeared.
		Valladares knows, and reminds us constantly, that scores of his friends are ''at this moment'' being brought to the flout cells, beaten and forced to live in solitary confinement.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DEEDA153FF93BA35755C0A960948260&sec=&pagewanted=all (1408 words)

	Armando Valladares: Human Rights Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Armando Valladares' crime was this: Castro had been appointing communists to his new government even though he had sworn that his revolution would bring freedom to Cuba.
		For this crime, Armando Valladares was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
		Ambassador Valladares persuaded the U.N. to conduct an investigation of the terrible conditions in Castro's jails.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2003/12/4/173407.shtml (1530 words)

	The Human Rights Foundation :: International Council
		In 1983, together with Armando Valladares he founded and was elected president of Resistance International which fought for the freedom of political prisoners throughout the Communist bloc.
		Valladares spent 22 years in Cuba's prisons, where he was subjected to the most inhumane conditions, including daily torture, forced labor, and solitary confinement.
		Valladares was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, where his focus on Cuba led to the exposure of Castro's horrific prison system.
	www.humanrightsfoundation.org /internationalcouncil.html (2182 words)

	Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag - PowerBookSearch!
		Valladares survived by prayer and by writing poetry whose publication in Europe brought his case to the attention of international figures such as French President Francois Mitterand and to human rights organizations whose constant pressure on the Castro regime finally led to his release.
		In 1960, Armando Valladares was arrested in Cuba for being opposed to communism on philosophical and religious grounds.
		Valladares' book is an event of considerable cultural and political significance: the most detailed and irrefutable description yet published of the suffering engendered in Cuba by Communism and Fidel Castro.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch1893554198.html (782 words)

	Amazon.ca: Against All Hope: Books: Armando Valladares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Valladares, thru sheer faith and belief that he'll survive, finds a way to survive the drawer cells, the white room, the extended solitary confinement in total darkness, the sleep deprivation, the horrible food, the immersion in a lake of human excrement, the brutal beatings and having to witness fellow prisoners maimed and killed.
		Valladares adds to the extensive record of what a horrifying sadist we have ruling an island prison 90 miles from our shores.
		Valladares' account of his time in prison is a rare first-person account of the horrors of a tyrannical government.
	www.amazon.ca /Against-All-Hope-Armando-Valladares/dp/0345344030 (1081 words)

	Armando Valladares
		Valladares received his 30-year sentence as a "counter revolutionary" because he would not place the placard "If Fidel is a communist, then put me on the list.
		Valladares told Castro's agents, who had demanded that he conform, that he did not support Castro's communism.
		Valladares counseled the Isla de Pinos inmates to stay true to their faith and not renounce God.
	unix.dfn.org /printer_ArmandoValladares.shtml (525 words)

	An Interview With Armando Valladares - Editor
		Valladares: Well, she told me that we might be separated for many years and that we would have to endure much during that time, but that I should realize that someone was waiting for me out there, waiting with love.
		Really, she has been a great support to me. She was a kind of "rock" with her love and caring during some of the more difficult times.
		I did all I could to try to reach her through other prisoners, especially the ordinary prisoners who were in prison for a short time.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1986/november/Sa11362.htm (326 words)

	Against All Hope: The struggle goes on / NewsMax - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		What shocked Valladares the most during his tenure at the U.N. was the blatant "double standard of many governments." He cites the examples of Spain under the socialist President Felipe Gonzalez and Mexico.
		Armando Valladares experienced and witnessed all that during his 1960-1982 interment in Castro's gulag.
		The dramatic story of Valladares' willpower, resistance and survival against all the humiliations, tortures and inhumanities of Castro's gulag is not the exception but the rule.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y02/mar02/22e5.htm (1654 words)

	Leif Wilehag:Armando Valladares
		Det tog många år innan jag läste Armando Valladares "Där allt hopp var ute" - en skildring av hans 22 år som politisk fånge i Castros fängelser.
		Armando Valladares var 23 år och väcktes mitt i natten av en k-pist mot pannan.
		Valladares arbetade vid den här tiden på postsparbanken, anställd av den revolutionära regeringen.
	www.alba.nu /Alba7_99/valladar.html (605 words)

	Cuba 2300
		Valladares is 44 years of age, and this year will have spent 22 of these in prison.
		Two months later, the hunger strike was lifted and Valladares remained ill from polyneuritis, as a consequence of lack of food.
		The prison authorities have informed Valladares that he will have to sign a letter recanting his denunciations, so that his family can leave the country.
	www.cidh.org /annualrep/81.82eng/Cuba2300.htm (873 words)

	elian - storm troopers strike
		"Valladares was a government functionary working at a postal savings bank who apparently made the mistake of being promoted too rapidly, incurring the enmity of envious colleagues.
		In a chapter titled ‘A Nazi Prison in the Caribbean’ Valladares describes life at Boniato Prison, one of the worst camps on the island.
		On his first day there the author was introduced to "the beginning of a plan for biological and psychological experimentation more inhuman, brutal, and merciless than anything the western world had known with the exception of the Nazis' activities.
	www.saveourguns.com /elian019.htm (967 words)

	miaminewtimes.com - News - Portrait of the Artist as a Litigant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Armando Valladares is a well-known figure in the world of el exilio.
		Armando Valladares first learned about the problem signature several days before Parga's column when a friend presented him with a few of the place mats.
		Mario Valladares acknowledges that he is not as famous as Armando, but he contends his art is just as worthwhile.
	www.miaminewtimes.com /Issues/1998-10-08/news/metro4.html (925 words)

	Ex
		The soles on a pair of large fl boots are what Armando Valladares remembers when he thinks back to his trial at age 22.
		Valladares spoke in Spanish and through an interpreter during the nearly two-hour speech.
		Paramount in Valladares' critique of the Cuban dictatorship were his stories of life as a political prisoner.
	www.free-biscet.org /biscetarticles (656 words)

	Inter-American Human Rights Database
		The denial of food to the prisoners of the Cabaña Prison for 47 days, to compel them to accept the rehabilitation plans, the blue uniforms of common prisoners, and military discipline, led to the illness diagnosed as polyneuritis.
		On December 12, 1980, the IACHR received detailed information on the situation of the Valladares family, which reads: His mother, sister, and brother-in-law who was also a political prisoner, can be considered hostages of the Cuban Government.
		In application of Article 39 of the Regulations, to presume to be true the acts denounced in the communications of May 16, 1977, April 20, 1979, and June 17, 1980, and various others concerned with the arbitrary detention of the prisoner Armando F. Valladares Pérez and the denial to him of medical care.
	www.wcl.american.edu /humright/digest/1981/res282.cfm (888 words)

	Amazon.com: Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag: Books: Armando Valladares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Valladares was arrested shortly after Fidel's revolution, simply for not placing a Marxist slogan on his office desk, that would have required him to deny his Savior, Jesus Christ.
		The greatest thing Armando Valladares has done for the free world is to shatter the myth (CNN and Jimmy Carter, not withstanding) that Fidel Castro's Cuba is a semi-free place, persecuting only a handful of capitalists and subversives.
		Valladares tells story after story of hundreds (among tens of thousands of others) of prisoners he knew personally, who were tortured, maimed, starved, and executed.
	www.amazon.com /Against-All-Hope-Memoir-Castros/dp/1893554198 (1855 words)

	The miracle of Armando Valladares
		In that letter, author and Cuban anti-communist crusader Armando Valladares laments the recent visit of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Archbishop of Genoa to the “island prison” called Cuba.
		A former Cuban political prisoner of some 22 years, Valladares was American ambassador before the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations in Geneva under the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Senior.
		Castro and Company may have taken 22 years of Valladare’s life, but they couldn’t take the fighting spirit of a hero, who to this very day remembers and will always remember his companions who were tortured and murdered in Fidel Castro’s jails or the thousands of prisoners still suffering in them.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2005/edesk111505.htm (675 words)

	Review of Armando Valladares’s Against all hope
		Valladares and his cellmates refused the notion of accepting political neutralization.
		In response to Valladares accusations, he orchestrated a vast international campaign against the author, labeling him of an U.S. agent, a liar and a former Batista police officer.
		Valladares considers that geography plays a role that favors Castro’s clash against the United States: “I have become convinced that hatred towards the U.S. has been a chief reason for Castro’s longevity in power.
	www.shsu.edu /~fol_res/valladares.html (2674 words)

	Armando Valladares, 'poète' dissident, et ex-policier poseur de bombe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Valladares est en fauteuil roulant en prison (résultat des tortures).
		Armando Valladares est un ancien policier de Batista.
		Valladares est poete, emprisonné, malade et il faut le faire sortir.
	www.stopusa.be /scripts/texte.php?section=BFAB&langue=0&id=15054 (453 words)

	Encounter Books » Armando Valladares
		Armando Valladares was a political prisoner in Castro’s Cuba for twenty-two years.
		After international pressure led to his release, he came to the United States and served as Ambassador to the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations during the Reagan and Bush administrations.
		Arrested in 1960 for being philosophically and religiously opposed to communism, Valladares was not released until 1982, by which time he had become one of the world’s most celebrated “prisoners of conscience.” Interned all those years at the infamous [...]
	www.encounterbooks.com /books/author/valladaresa (127 words)

	NewsPressRelease
		Valladares is an accomplished writer, a poet and a multi-media artistic painter, as well as the internationally well-known author of
		Valladares was appointed as U.S. Ambassador to the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations by President Ronald Reagan; and he continued to serve in that capacity under President George H. Bush.
		Valladares has been a speaker at hundreds of conferences around the world, including visits at Harvard University, Duke University, Columbia University, UCLA, Princeton University, Sorbonne University in Paris, Basel University in Switzerland, Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and Universidad Anahuac in Mexico.
	www.mdc.edu /Home/Press/valladares.htm (420 words)

	Books In Brief - 2 - memoir about living in Castro's gulag - Review National Review - Find Articles
		Upon the publication of Against All Hope 15 years ago, its author was hailed as the "Cuban Solzhenitsyn." Richard John Neuhaus wrote in NR that the book was crucial to understanding the 20th century.
		Valladares was working in a government office when he was arrested in 1960 for refusing to promise uncritical support for the new regime.
		Valladares, who was released in 1982 after an international campaign on his behalf, is careful to provide the name of each of the men he meets- particularly those who are executed-aware that most of them would otherwise be forgotten by history.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_18_53/ai_77674965 (288 words)

	Castro's Cruelty Must Be Thwarted
		A few are going blind, others have heart trouble and diabetes, and one was so sick that he died while being processed for release.
		That clearly is the goal of Armando Valladares, who says: "I have lived with these men longer than with my family.
		Armando Valladares has stripped away the facade of such lies.
	www.fiu.edu /~fcf/castro.thwart.html (862 words)

	El pedido de perdón que no hubo:
		There were statements made by ecclesiastical authorities and by known Catholic intellectuals that manifested their doubts and even their differences about central aspects of such ceremonies.
		Armando Valladares is a Cuban ex-political prisoner, was ambassador of the United States before the U.N. Human Rights Commission, in Geneva, during the Reagan and Bush administrations.
		Armando Valladares, ex preso político cubano, fue embajador de Estados Unidos ante la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la ONU, en Ginebra, durante las administraciones Reagan y Bush.
	www.nocastro.com /archives/valladares1.htm (733 words)

	TIME.com: Inside Castro's Prisons -- Aug. 15, 1983 -- Page 1
		Armando Valladares was a 23-year-old minor bureaucrat in Cuba's Ministry of Communications when the police arrested him in December 1960.
		During his confinement, Valladares began to record images and thoughts on the torn-off margins of Castro's official newspaper, Granma.
		Following is Valladares' first extensive English-language account of his experiences during almost 22 years in Castro's jails.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,949721,00.html (630 words)

	Survivors of Tyranny
		This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
		In 1960, a 23-year-old postal bank inspector, Armando Valladares, was thrown into prison for refusing to compromise his Catholicism and political beliefs in favor of the increasingly repressive Castro regime in Cuba.
		We are fighting for the right of the working people to association and for the dignity of human labour.
	unix.dfn.org /survivors_tyranny.shtml (442 words)

	George Bush Presidential Library and Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		And I'm sure many of you have read it, but it's a tribute to the arching human spirit, to that will to live, which helped endure the cruelest of regimes; a tribute, also, to the courage of the Cuban people, resolute and unafraid.
		Read the book, because you'll understand that a deprivation of human rights in a Cuban prison is no different than the deprivation of human rights in a prison in Nicaragua.'' And he did, and I hope it's made a difference in that country's approach to foreign policy.
		It is absolutely without limits, and the fact that he headed our delegation fighting for human rights, I think, said an awful lot about our commitment, the commitment of every American to human rights and to freedom.
	bushlibrary.tamu.edu /research/papers/1989/89052200.html (1056 words)

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