"I am not going to thank you: you cannot be grateful for the release of someone who should never have lost his freedom,"

Felipe González

snapped

at

Fidel Castro

when, coinciding with his visit to Havana, the Commander released some prisoners as alleged gesture of relaxation.

For González, this practice was purely and simply

"trading in human flesh"

and he did not consider it acceptable.

The underlying thought was simple: Castro had such a large

stock

of dissidents that he could enlist.

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