• Submitted by: manso
• Politics and Government
• 10 / 25 / 2010

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A Cuban reader of the blog La Joven Cuba has a suggestion for Guillermo Fariñas, winner of the 50,000-euro Sakharov Prize.

Fifty-thousand euros translate into 1.5 million ordinary pesos (CUPs), the reader says, which Fariñas could squirrel away in a bank as a Certificate of Deposit. The rate of interest for CDs is 6 percent per annum, the reader notes, so in one year Fariñas would earn 90,000 pesos.

That breaks down into 7,500 pesos per month, so Fariñas, "without touching the principal, could live in Cuba without working until he dies."

(Actually, the reader low-balled the exchange rate. Fifty-thousand euros translate into 1.849 million CUPs.) In another opinion in the blog, Max Lesnik, director of Radio Miami, wonders whether Fariñas will donate part of that money to the Santa Clara hospital where he was treated for his "dangerous hunger-strike game." Or will he split it with fellow dissidents? (A better question might be: Will he collect it?)

Source: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2010/10/