Death of an Old Fighter

Gustavo Arcos Bergnes, leader of the Comite Cubano Pro Derechos Humanos (Cuban Committee for Human Rights), and a veteran among Cuban dissidents, has died in a Havana hospital at the age of 80.

Gustavo Arcos took part with Fidel Castro in the assault on the Moncada Barracks in July, 1953. After 1959 he worked as the ambassador to Belgium. He was imprisoned for supposed counterrevolutionary activities and in 1988 he succeeded Ricardo Bofill as president of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights.

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