Mrs. Odio. The capital of Isle of Pines.
Mr. Liebeler. Your father is a prisoner there?
Mrs. Odio. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler. Are the prisoners permitted to write letters back and forth?
Mrs. Odio. One letter a month, on one side.
Mr. Liebeler. I would presume that the letters are read by Castro's men?
Mrs. Odio. They are all read. That is why I did not given him a lot of details. I managed to write very small so they would have a time reading it, like he does. You can see how perfectly he writes a letter.
Mr. Liebeler. Now, let me ask you how you managed to establish that these men came in late September. You previously stated that you couldn't remember the date exactly, but you had managed to establish it as being in late September. Would you tell me the procedure that you went through to establish that date in your mind?
Mrs. Odio. I told you my sister Annie was staying with some American friends. She did not live with me. She had gone to live with the Madlock's. And I called her many times to come and babysit for me during certain weekends, and she would come either on a Thursday or Friday, depending on when I called her.
I told her that day that I was going out, but I wanted her to start packing for me because we were moving over to Oak Cliff. It must have been the last days of September, because we had already packages in the living room. We had already started to pack to go, and we had to move by the first of October since my rent was due that day, you see.