In the winter of 1962, I was a political prisoner in Baracoa Prison. Oriente Province, having been sentenced by the Revolutionary Tribunal No. 1 of Havana in Trial No. 513/61 to 9 years. One day, a series of trucks came and I, as well as many other female prisoners were taken to Guanajay Prison, at the other end of the island of Cuba.
In Guanajay the then Director of Prisons, Manuel Martínez was waiting for us. At the entrance of Section D (lower floor), which was a punishment area we were taken one by one from the trucks and beaten. When my turn came up, it was Manuel Martínez himself who puched me with his fist in my face and sent me to the floor. When I tried to get up, Martínez started me to kick me with his boots until I finally made it to a cell where the other women who had come with me were bunched up together, half-naked.
We ended up in Guanajay in punishment cells, isolated.