He has conducted 23 hunger strikes over the years to protest various elements of the Cuban regime.
Universal health care has long given the Cuban regime bragging rights, though there is growing concern about the future.
He therefore became a double agent of the Cuban regime.
By means of various types of sanctions, can we put pressure on the Cuban regime?
On several occasions, the Cuban regime tried to prevent him from coming, but we succeeded in the end.
Will we eventually be able to bring ourselves to stand up to the Cuban regime?
To do so unconditionally would be to send quite the wrong signal to the Cuban regime.
Not least, it will also be harder for the Cuban regime, with increasing choice, to suppress the free expression of opinion.
The Cuban regime responded cynically and declared that it would not give in to international pressure.
The film, set in 1933, concerns a group of revolutionaries attempting to overthrow the Cuban regime.