close friend, poet Armando Valladares. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the Cólon Cemetery in Havana. Guillermo Fariñas did a seven-month hunger strike to protest against the extensive Internet censorship in Cuba. He ended it in autumn 2006 with severe health problems, although still conscious. Reporters Without Borders awarded its cyber-freedom prize to Fariñas in 2006. Jorge Luis García Pérez (known as Antúnez) has done hunger strikes. In 2009, following the end of his 17-year imprisonment, Antúnez, his wife Iris, and Diosiris Santana Pérez started a hunger strike to support other political prisoners. Leaders from Uruguay, Costa Rica, and Argentina declared their support for Antúnez. Orlando Zapata Tamayo, an imprisoned activist and dissident, died while on a hunger strike for more than 80 days. Zapata went on the strike in protest against the Cuban government for having denied him the choice of wearing white dissident clothes instead of the designated prisoner uniform, as well as denouncing the living conditions of other prisoners. As part of his claim, Zapata was asking for the prisoners conditions to be comparable to those that Fidel Castro had while incarcerated after his 1953 attack against the Moncada Barracks. In 2012, Wilmar Villar Mendoza died after a 50+ day hunger strike. Cuban exiles More than one million Cubans of all social classes have left the island to the United States, and to Spain, the UK, Canada, Mexico and other countries. Because leaving required exit permit and a substantial amount of money, most Cubans could never leave Cuban soil. Many Cuban exiles have actively campaigned for a change of government in Cuba. See also 2021 Cuban protests Human rights in Cuba Censorship in Cuba Civil resistance Darsi Ferrer Ramírez Antonio Rodiles References External links General links International Freedom of Expression Exchange – Monitoring freedom of expression in Cuba Human Rights Watch – Report from Human Rights Watch about Cuba Letter from Cuba (Independent Press from Inside and Outside Cuba) Web site in Spanish and English with articles by Cubans inside of Cuba and outside. From San Juan, Puerto Rico Fidel Castro: Fervent Opposition – a slideshow by Life magazine'' Opposition groups Free Cuba Foundation – official website Cuban Liberty Council – official website US-Cuba Democracy Pac- official website Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) – official website Proyecto Varela – official website Movimiento Libertario Cubano – official website Political repression in Cuba Resistance movements Cuba–United States