Is this why the left fawns over Castro?

Seriously, what leftist wouldn't want to do time in one of Castro's detention camps to advance the cause of Communism? (Hat tip to Robert Cox)

I was a full professor at the University of Havana. By 1968, I had enough of Castro’s system and decided to leave Cuba....

... At a compulsory meeting of faculty and students, I was denounced as a traitor and expelled.

I was kept in limbo — unable to leave, unable to work — for two years.

Then, in 1971, security forces came to my house. I was charged with ‘vagrancy’ and taken at gunpoint to a forced labor camp 50 miles outside of Havana.

For six weeks, my wife and children had no idea what had become of me.

I was made to work in the fields from dawn to dusk. We had little food and what we had was disgusting.

I stole potatoes and corn from the fields and ate them raw.

I ate grass and plant leaves for fiber and vitamins....

... Fifty men shared one open water pipe for drinking water and bathing.

One open hole was the toilet. We were so desperate to get the filth off us that we bathed in irrigation ditches.

One of the jobs at the camp was to put parathion on crops.

I knew parathion, an insecticide, entered the bloodstream through the skin, mouth and nose causing poisoning, blackouts, and death.

We were made to spread the parathion with our bare hands, breathing in the powder as we worked.

Every day the guards pointed guns in my face, hit me and shouted “traitor,” “vermin” and “parasite.”...

... I went from 180 pounds to 142 by the time I left Cuba.

I later learned that a woman from the government wanted to live in my house.

Maybe that was the reason. When I left, she moved into my house.”...