Guanahacabibes camp

[4] The camp was intended to be an extra-legal facility, officially titled the "Uvero Quemado Rehabilitation Center".

If an employee made some sort of infraction, they could decide to work at Guanahacabibes in return for employment amnesty.

[6]In 1963, a former inmate at the camp told the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, that any Cuban who was denounced by a law enforcement official, for whatever reason, could be sentenced to Guanahacabibes.

These accounts have led historian Rachel Hyson, to posit that there were perhaps multiple labor camps that were commonly called "Guanahacabibes".

In 1965, Cuba ordered its most "deviant" draftees to be sent to Military Units to Aid Production (UMAP camps), which were agricultural centers notorious for inhumane treatment.

Che Guevara (left most in crowd), observing a workplace in East Germany during his diplomatic tour.