The history of Castro's prisons is being told in the eponymous movie Plantados, which is being filmed in the City of Miami South Florida by Cuban director and screenwriter Lilo Vilaplana. The debut of the film is planned for March 2021. Plantados has a million-dollar budget provided by Leopoldo Fernández Pujals, to honor the memory of Cuban political prisoners and, in particular, his uncle, José Pujals Mederos, who served 27 years of a 30-year sentence imposed by the Castro government. The history of the plantados has been recorded on the page for more than 30 years. The website includes the following historical data: names of thousands of plantados during the year 1977, name of political prisoners with prisoners #, those murdered, hunger strikes, the letter of the 138, and more. This historical data was taken from prison during 8 years by one of the messengers of the plantados, Miguel Sanchez, son of the third plantado prisoner who refused to work by force, Nerin Sanchez. Miguel, directs the non-profit organization “Proyecto Los Plantados, Inc.” (Plantados Project).Īlfredo A. Izaguirre Riva was born October 11, 1938. He was the youngest journalist of the newspaper El Crisol in Havana, Cuba. At 18 years of age, he was the youngest member of the "Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa" (Interamerican Society of the Press). He fought against the Castro dictatorship by joining the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an agent. His work at the agency consisted of organizing the plan "Patty" which entailed a military attack against the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba giving the United States a reason to invade Cuba and remove Fidel Castro. Days before the execution of the organized attack, one other of the organizers confessed to Cuban authorities of the plan. Izaguirre Riva was sentenced to death for organizing the plan and his role with the CIA. The Castro regime made a movie titled “Patty Candela” depicting the plan and his involvement with the CIA. He was the first Cuban political prisoner who refused to work while incarcerated under the Castro regime. The defiant act of refusing to work later became known as “Plantado.” He was the first Plantado and the only one who never worked. As a result of not working and his strong and defiant position against the communist regime, he was beaten and tortured for years in solitary punishment cells. As a result of almost two decades of torture and being beaten to the brink of death, he suffered a brain hemorrhage shortly after being released from prison after immigrating to Miami, Florida. He was paralyzed for 30 years until his death on May 30, 2014.
Mario Chanes de Armas was the last plantado to be released, in 1991, after 30 years of incarceration.
He was originally among Castro's closest allies, participating in the attack on the Moncada barracks. He turned against Castro early in the revolution.
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