Jorge Olivera Castillo

Sentenced to 18 years in Guantánamo, Chafarina.

Jorge Olivera Castillo was the head of Havana Press agency (Havana) and later its interim director and a former reporter for New Cuban Press. In a 1997 crackdown on independent journalists he was denounced by Cuban authorities for "consorting with the foreign media." Neighborhood vigilante groups ordered him to leave his Havana home and he was forced to sleep on park benches for a while. In November 1999, he was denounced by name by Fidel Castro as one of the dissidents who allegedly planned to disrupt the Ibero-American Summit in Havana. Married, he has a 10-year-old daughter.