August 17, 2008
ARMANDO VALLADARES: Twenty-Two Years in Castro’s Gulag. (Via Ilya Somin, who notes: “I discussed the Cuban government’s massive human rights violations (the scale of which is still rarely appreciated) in this series of posts, where I also explained why its mostly mythical successes in providing health care do not come close to offsetting the harm caused by its political and economic repression.”)