Cardinal Jaime Ortega last week met with Ernesto Borges, a political prisoner on hunger strike since early February to demand his freedom.
That same day, authorities cut off all communication between Borges and his family,according to the prisoner's father, Raul Borges.
Was it only a coincidence? Was it an attempt by the regime to up the pressure on a recalcitrant prisoner?
Or was it something much more nefarious, part of a manuevering by Ortega, in advance of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the island later this month, to strike a deal...