Foreigners attribute releases to pressures from outside; Cubans know deaths polictical prisoners look bad for Castro.

Standing Up to a Dictator
Berta Soler Fernandez, Washington Post Original Article

After Cuban authorities released seven political prisoners recently, some of us, wives of imprisoned Cuban dissidents, received calls from abroad rejoicing over these "liberations" and over the improved human rights situation in Cuba. But these were not liberations; the regime simply released a few sick men on parole.