They give to humanitarian aid to the political prisoner Francisco Echemendia.
Victor and Sanchez
Independent journalist
victorernestosanchez@ymail.com

SANTIAGO OF CUBA - December 4, 2009 (www.miamiprogressive.com) The past 30 of November, were given a humanitarian aid, that included medicines and an economic support, a to him

Maria Teresa Hernandez, wife of the political prisoner Francisco Herodes Diaz Echemendía, who fulfills their sentence in the prison of Sweet potato in this locality.

Ecemendía was stopped the 8 of September of 1990 and later condemned 20 years of prison, the one that was increased in 10 months after one Joint one, by a protest realized in the Disciplinary detachment, known like “Boniatico�.

Although other political prisoners who carried out that same protest, were released without considering that additional sanction, on Echemendía weighs the uncertainty, of if he is released when fulfilling the 20 years in the 2010. It is necessary to have present that the Public prosecutor of Santiago of Cuba, denied the conditional freedom to him when fulfilling the 2/3 of the sanction, by the contestataria position that always has maintained in the prison, denouncing constantly the abuses and violations of the human rights in the Prison of Sweet potato.

In a telephone call the last week, Echemendia asked for with urgency medecines for the herpes genital, that has been suffering for several years.

Delivery was realized by Juan Carlos Hernandez, next to another members of Government of Opposition in Santiago of Cuba, who made available his contact for any person who wishes to contribute with this request of Echemendia, one of the older political prisoners of Cuba.

Note: The called medicine to acyclovir (mark name: Zovirax) can accelerate the healing and diminish in many people the pain that the herpes it causes.

The tablets of acyclovir can treat the herpes primary or the herpes appellant and finish or diminish the number of infections appellants (reactivations). Also acyclovir comes in the form of cream that you put in the ulcers during the primary infection or the infections appellants.

Famciclovir (mark name: Famvir) and to valacyclovir (mark name: Valtrex) is other medecines that are used to treat the herpes genital appellant and to prevent the infections appellants.