Marco Rubio criticizes the Cuban dictatorship for judging political prisoners as criminals

The Cuban-American senator Marco Rubio He criticized that the Castro dictatorship judged as criminals the citizens who participated in the 11J protests in more than 60 locations in the country and highlighted the case of political prisoner Andy García Lorenzo.

"For the criminal dictatorship of Castro and Díaz-Canel, the brave Cubans who took to the streets of Cuba crying for freedom and demanding the end of tyranny, are criminals," Rubio wrote on Twitter this Wednesday.

Likewise, he highlighted that these protests exposed the fatigue that society experienced with the lies of Cuban rulers and officials, incapable of meeting the expectations of Cuban citizens.

"The reality is that with each passing day the Cuban people realize that the regime deceives them and does not keep promises," he added.

Rubio in turn shared a tweet from the Cuban opponent Rosa María Payá in which the case of the political prisoner stood out Andy Garcia Lorenzo, and the announcement of his trial next Monday.

"The dictatorship wants to sentence him to 7 years in prison for peacefully demonstrating on 11J. Let's not allow the state terrorism of Castro and Diaz-Canel," Payá wrote.

Roxana García Lorenzo, sister of the political prisoner, thanked the fact that Marco Rubio and Rosa María Payá gave visibility to the case of the young Cuban because this way more people in the world can learn about the injustices committed within the island.

"It is a relief in the midst of so much tension because Andy's trial is just around the corner and we know that the sentences come from above and that this is just a staging, a mixture of ridiculousness with lies, sadness and a lot of hypocrisy ", declared the young woman to CiberCuba.

García Lorenzo is convinced that the witnesses that the Prosecutor's Office will bring are the same police officers who beat her brother, just as happened cWith five men who judged in Caibarién this week, and regretted that international organizations remain silent about what is happening in Cuba.

"We are especially grateful to each figure who expresses themselves in favor not exclusively of Andy, but of any boy who is being abused by this dictatorship. I immensely ask that every person who can help our people and become our voice ", he concluded.

Andy García Lorenzo, a resident of Santa Clara, participated in the 11J protests, like hundreds of thousands of other Cubans, but has remained in jail since then because he committed alleged crimes and his fate may be similar to that of other citizens who already have a final sentence and they must serve prison for expressing their discontent with the people.

García Lorenzo's family became an important means of reporting about the injustices committed against political prisoners in Cuba and to this end they develop different actions on social networks, in order to make the cases visible.

They also carry out a donation collection with the purpose of helping the more than 600 detainees of 11J and to all those Cubans who remain behind bars for political reasons.