Madrid. .- The last dissident released by the Castro regime and which includes a greater number than thirty have reached the early hours of Friday at Madrid Barajas Airport, Europa Press has found. The Berlin Air charter flight chartered by the Spanish Government has landed at 7.45 pm in Terminal 1 at Barajas airport, from Havana.
In the aircraft traveled about thirty former political prisoners and some of their relatives who have left the island as part of the release process started last summer in Havana with the mediation of the Cuban Catholic Church and supported by Spain. This is the first time that the Cuban political prisoners who agree to move to Spain once free travel on a plane chartered by the Government, because until now the transfer had been made on commercial flights, but also was the executive that would cover the costs of tickets.
The decision to charter a plane, according to diplomatic sources explained, is to "rationalize spending" and that grouping the transfer of a considerable number of prisoners and their families is "more profitable" than his arrival in Spain from occurring more gradual depending on the availability of tickets on flights between Havana and Madrid.
Once in Spain, have stated the sources, these former political prisoners receive the same treatment as those who arrived in recent months - 115 according to figures provided yesterday by the Minister of the Presidency, Ramon Jauregui, in the Senate - to which subsidiary international protection was offered, although some of them have rejected it and have applied for asylum, but for now the situation is resolved.
The sources were unable to determine the identity of all prisoners who have come to Madrid, but have acknowledged that the release of some of them have not been announced by the Archbishop of Havana, which until now has been announced on time all the releases. The latest release dates back to March 22, when he announced the release of eleven political prisoners - Juan Carlos Vázquez García, Bodanis Zulueta Ramos, Jose Antonio Sardinas Martin, Antonio Garcia Reyes, Arnaldo Márquez Gil, Eduardo Díaz Castellanos, Erick Knight Martínez, Alberto Santiago Dobouchet Hernández, José Manuel de la Rosa Pérez, Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina and Roberto López Rodríguez -.
Cuban President Raul Castro, was committed on 7 July under the mediation of the Catholic Church on the island, to release the 52 prisoners of the Black Spring of the total that still imprisoned 75 dissidents, intellectuals and journalists arrested in the crackdown of March 2003. Although the commitment is to be released within four months, the release has been delayed a few months, but now they are all free.
Of the 52, 40 opted to move to Spain, where some were later moved to the United States and Chile, while the remaining twelve were allowed to remain in Cuba. 
In the aircraft traveled about thirty former political prisoners and some of their relatives who have left the island as part of the release process started last summer in Havana with the mediation of the Cuban Catholic Church and supported by Spain. This is the first time that the Cuban political prisoners who agree to move to Spain once free travel on a plane chartered by the Government, because until now the transfer had been made on commercial flights, but also was the executive that would cover the costs of tickets.
The decision to charter a plane, according to diplomatic sources explained, is to "rationalize spending" and that grouping the transfer of a considerable number of prisoners and their families is "more profitable" than his arrival in Spain from occurring more gradual depending on the availability of tickets on flights between Havana and Madrid.
Once in Spain, have stated the sources, these former political prisoners receive the same treatment as those who arrived in recent months - 115 according to figures provided yesterday by the Minister of the Presidency, Ramon Jauregui, in the Senate - to which subsidiary international protection was offered, although some of them have rejected it and have applied for asylum, but for now the situation is resolved.
The sources were unable to determine the identity of all prisoners who have come to Madrid, but have acknowledged that the release of some of them have not been announced by the Archbishop of Havana, which until now has been announced on time all the releases. The latest release dates back to March 22, when he announced the release of eleven political prisoners - Juan Carlos Vázquez García, Bodanis Zulueta Ramos, Jose Antonio Sardinas Martin, Antonio Garcia Reyes, Arnaldo Márquez Gil, Eduardo Díaz Castellanos, Erick Knight Martínez, Alberto Santiago Dobouchet Hernández, José Manuel de la Rosa Pérez, Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina and Roberto López Rodríguez -.
Cuban President Raul Castro, was committed on 7 July under the mediation of the Catholic Church on the island, to release the 52 prisoners of the Black Spring of the total that still imprisoned 75 dissidents, intellectuals and journalists arrested in the crackdown of March 2003. Although the commitment is to be released within four months, the release has been delayed a few months, but now they are all free.
Of the 52, 40 opted to move to Spain, where some were later moved to the United States and Chile, while the remaining twelve were allowed to remain in Cuba.
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