How the Cuban government violated Vatican agreement on political prisoners

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, arrived in Havana in early June with a message: “The Holy See cannot fail to promote both rights and freedoms and their foundation in the transcendent dimension of humankind.” It was the 90th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the Vatican, and the prelate arrived as the first envoy since the appointment of Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. A few days after the visit, political opponent Donaida Pérez entered the Guajamal women’s prison in Santa Clara, from which she had been released in January as part of the group of 553 people freed following negotiations between the Cuban government and the Catholic Church.

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