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Arranging an interview with a human-rights activist entails maps drawn on shreds of paper and mysterious phone numbers passed along by hand. When we finally catch up with Elizardo Sanchez, he tells us to leave our taxi a block away. Sanchez has been outspoken enough to land in prison for eight of the past 12 years. "People don't understand what a regimented state we have," he says. "The proof is that here, unlike Eastern Europe, the government is not changing, even though we have far worse economic pressures...
Control is implanted in every crevice of the system, from the individual dossiers to the vigilante block committees. "We have the largest number of police per capita in the world," says Sanchez, and he claims that nearly 1% of the population is in jail. In the past few months, he says, 5,000 to 10,000 citizens have been imprisoned for illegal economic activities, sentenced to eight to 10 years for slaughtering a state-owned cow or stealing state property. He warns, "The government is pushing the country to the edge of violence...
...Eliot banquet in honor of Evening With Champions last month, where three-fourths of those attending were undergraduates, alcohol was served by Harvard Student Agencies bartenders without BAT's presence, Sanchez said...
Epps said BAT notified all houses of the rulerequiring its presence at social events involvingalcohol. But Sanchez said she was not aware of therule...
...mind having a BAT team to check IDs,"said Sanchez, but she said house committees shouldbe allowed to choose the bartenders for socialevents...