Cuba: Killed for Stealing Fruit · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“On the afternoon of July 15, 2011, the town of Mantilla…was shocked by the death of Angel Izquierdo Medina, a 14-year-old black teenager, who died from a gunshot to the femoral artery by Amado Interian, a retired police Major”: Laritza's Laws laments that the youth was killed for trying “to take genips, also known Spanish limes, from a tree.”