Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique Explained

Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique
Death Date:	2016
Death Place:	Havana
Nationality:	Cuban
Institution:	Instituto de Economía
Field:	Independent economics

Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique was ^[1] a Cuban independent economist.^[2] Ramos Lauzerique and Marta Beatriz Roque founded the Instituto de Economía.^[3]

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The group of economists has exposed how the communist government uses false statistics when reporting to the people and to international organizations.^[3]

He was imprisoned during the Black Spring in 2003 and Amnesty International recognized him as a prisoner of conscience.^[4]

In August 2005 political prisoners Adolfo Fernández Sainz and Alfredo Domínguez Batista went on a hunger strike after Ramos was beaten by guards.^[5]

Ramos was freed in November 2010.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Muere en Cuba Arnaldo Ramos, ex preso político del Grupo de los 75 . 3 November 2016 .
2. Web site: Síntesis biográfica de Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique. Payolibre.com. 2009-04-10. 2010-05-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20100526132507/http://www.payolibre.com/PRESO-%20Arnaldo%20Ramos%20Lauzurique.htm. dead.
3. Web site: Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique. Net for Cuba. 2009-05-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20080829161447/http://www.netforcuba.org/cubapp/Prs/ArnaldoRamosEN.htm. 2008-08-29. dead.
4. Web site: Cuba: Prisoners of conscience: 71 longing for freedom . Amnesty International . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090718134010/http://www.amnesty.ca/resource_centre/reports/view.php?load=arcview&article=2311&c=Resource%20Centre%20Reports . 2009-07-18 .
5. Web site: Síntesis biográfica de Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique. 2009-04-10. 2010-05-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20100526132507/http://www.payolibre.com/PRESO-%20Arnaldo%20Ramos%20Lauzurique.htm. dead.
6. News: Cuba frees political prisoner who refused exile deal . BBC News . 14 November 2010.