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Those are the words of a slim, quiet-spoken American who is an inmate of Mexico City's aging Lecumberri Prison. Two years ago, he was a graduate student (in international commerce) at San Francisco State College. Now, at 25, he is serving a seven-year term for smuggling drugs...
...Heberto Castillo, an engineering professor at UNAM who organized the teacher faction which supported the students in 1968, and by Cervantes Cabeza de Vaca, one of the most charismatic student leaders. Castillo and other long experienced radicals spent two years in jail after the 1968 movement. While in Lecumberri prison (the same prison where Hyland is now staying) they greatly influenced student leaders such as Cabeza de Vaca who were also there...
...been picked up during the 1960 disturbances, but claimed he was miles away at the time, painting government-commissioned murals at Chapultepec Castle. The authorities threw him into Mexico City's Lecumberri Prison anyway, and held him without trial. Whiling away the weeks, he painted scenery for prison theatricals, staged a brief hunger strike, and produced about 20 tiny paintings. He even managed to turn out murals on sections of plywood designed to be hinged together later...
...cell No. 20 in Mexico City's Lecumberri Prison last week, a grey-haired prisoner lay on his bunk and refused all food, though he occasionally took a swig of water to ease his hunger pains. At 64, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico's No. 1 Communist and No. 1 living artist, was on a hunger strike. His stomach troubled him, but Siqueiros was adamant: "I will continue until we get justice...
...friends had predicted that some day he would go too far. In Mexico City, in 1946, he and Congressman José Torrero got into a pistol duel, with the usual result-El Sapo killed his adversary. An unsympathetic judge gave El Sapo 18 years in the Black Palace of Lecumberri, as the district pen is called. After a period of inactivity, he killed an annoying cell mate two years ago, did a stretch in solitary confinement...
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