that received U.S. funding to assist Cuban farmers sided with the opposition, several leaders he once funded are now in exile (Marx 2006). Rodriguez ended assistance because the leaders they trained would eventually immigrate to the United States, thus the impact they had hoped for was not successful (Marx 2006). And for the few dissidents that still remain in Cuba, public opposition would mean almost certain imprisonment (Marx 2006). Today, Cuba has several hundred political prisoners, however the government has other means of stifling dissent (Marx 2006). During the past eighteen months, pro-government crowds have stormed the homes of more than 100 dissidents, "shouting insults through megaphones, throwing rocks and sowing fear" (Marx 2006). Earlier this year, a protest against activist Katia Martin lasted four days, preventing her from participating in any opposition events, and the wife of imprisoned activist Jose Luis Garcia Panaque had her house surrounded by more than 100 pro-government militants who hurled rocks and i
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