These hypocritical words come from international gangsters who carry out mass murder around the world and take whole nations hostage. Then the U.S. used the weapon of economic embargo to try to pressure Saddam Hussein, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children. In Peru, the U.S. props up a brutal regime that holds more than 5,000 people in jail as political prisoners. They have been charged with political crimes, tried by hooded military judges without any chance to defend themselves, and sentenced to long jail terms under some of the most inhumane prison conditions in the world. One Peruvian prison, Yanamayo, was deliberately built in a very remote and harsh area of the Andes mountains.
Temperatures drop as low as zero during the winter, but the altitude makes it cold much of the year.
Prisoners in Yanamayo receive about a gallon of water each day that is used for drinking, washing and flushing a hole in the concrete floor that serves as a toilet. The beds are concrete, and prisoners are allowed only a half-hour of yard time a day. They are confined to their cells the rest of the day. In Callao prison near Lima, the Peruvian regime built special underground isolation cells to hold captured leaders like PCP Chairman Gonzalo. For the majority of the people, there is only more poverty and misery.