Movie Review: ‘Plantados’ Shows Castro Regime Prisoners

Prisoners of the Castro regime spend decades behind bars but refuse to give in.

If Nelson Mandela had been Cuban rather than South African, he never would have been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize or become a 20th-century human-rights icon and statesman. Instead, he would have been a “plantado,” one of the political prisoners (the “immovable ones”) who refused to cooperate with the regime in exchange for shorter sentences and lesser punishments.

“Cooperate” meant…