Biographical Profile of Ferdinando Castro de Lardiller Date of Birth: August 14, 1961 Parents: Aleida Lucila and Faustino Castro Address: Pedro A. Perez, #456 e/ 3 y 4 Norte, Guantanamo CP-95100 Cuba Education: 12th Grade Marital Status: Married Wife's Name: Ana Kely Marquez Abascal No. of Children: 3 City of birth: The City of Guantanamo [under] the influence of annexation and the Russian imperialism. Comments by Ferdinando Castro de Lardiller I was a militant communist and a member of the Department of State Security and of the Military Counter Intelligence, trained in "Cacho" (a special force in the Cuban military) in the Province of Pinar del Rio. I decided to leave all of that in 1987 - 13 years ago - upon realizing that there was no future in continuing to fight for the safety and wellbeing of a government that was sustained in power as a result of demagogy and its totalitarian extravaganza has been militarizing all of the economic entities of this country. During 5 years I worked in the Provincial Management of Economic Planning After asking to be relieved of my duties with the Department of Counter Intelligence, same Department has not ceased harassing me. At first I did not pay attention to it, but after time is has been increasing. From 1991 to date, the repressive measures of this city have taken approximately 70 actions against me, from physical and psychological torture, detentions, searches of my home in order to find enemy propaganda, beatings, prison, constant threats and now they are trying to economically strangle me, my wife and my children, being that they do not give let me work because I am considered to be a counter-revolutionary. We are living because of God's Grace. It is God that gives me the strength to everyday peacefully fight against the dictatorship that was put in place 42 years ago by the autocrat Fidel Castro. Since 1992 I have been linked to groups that defend Human Rights along with Jose Luis Naranjo Torres, who has since passed away and who used to collaborate with me in the making of bags with necessities for political prisoners. Later I was very active in the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy together with Rafael Fonseca Ochoa, Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina, who was in jail back then, and Yamila Alonso. The Club of Political Prisoners and Ex-political Prisoners presided by Alberto Martinez Fernandez was created wherein I am now an executive member, I was Vice-Delegate of the Cuban Workers Coordinating Committee and I am the delegate founder of the Democratic Party 30th of November "Frank Pais" in Guantanamo which is nationally presided by the heroic sister Maritza Lugo Fernandez. Actually, according to the Guantanamo National Executive it is the best delegation in the country, in spite of this we believe that if we had more resources our work would have better results, tending to the characteristics of this province, that in the first place has the enclave of the North American Naval Base, secondly is the furthest province from the capitol and where there is no bureau of any foreign press that at any given time could support us, and thirdly, it is practically void of tourists, this is what makes this repressive system even more cruel in this unprotected city. Because of what I was in the dictator's regime and what I actually am, the Department of Counter Intelligence keeps me under a cruel system of vigilance and openly following me, in addition to trying to hurt my integrity in an act committed by delinquents. It is because of them that after every incident that this repressive group commits against me I have notified, in a very clear manner, the Refugee Department in the United States Interest Section, where my case is registered under number 32091-CU. I have various aspirations in life, which can be taken away at any moment upon confinement in prison: As an oppositionist: To fight for the establishment of a true state of Democracy in my country, without armed forces and a competent police force capable of safeguarding citizens' interests and not the interest of the State, where men are free and have the right to everything, only being limited by the right of another man, where every citizen could create their own large or small business, where every Cuban that lives in exile could return whenever they want, in that way reuniting the families that have been separated by the dictatorship of the Castro brothers. As father and husband: That they have the necessary things to live from food, to clothes to wear, to not have to go to school with a broken pair of shoes and to not have another pair to go out with, that they grow without discrimination because of their parents' way of thinking and with the constant fear that at any moment they could be incarcerated because of their political ideology. As a Christian: To live in a society inspired by the Love and Respect of all men and above all the Love of God. In this way we would live in Peace which is so necessary in the world. Amen. Ferdinando Castro de Lardiller