The Cuban activist and art historian,Carolina Barrero, sent a message of solidarity to artists and political prisonersLuis Manuel Otero Alcántara andMaykel “Osorbo” Castillo, leaders ofSan Isidro Movement (MSI), who this Monday face charges fabricated by State Security in the courts of the Cuban regime.
“No matter what the State security prosecutors say in this political trial, the place of Maykel and Luis in our history is already sealed,” said the young activist on her social networks, moments before leaving to demonstrate in Madrid for the release of the artists and all the political prisoners who remain in the prisons of the dictatorship.
Otero Alcántara and Osorbo appear this Monday and Tuesday before the magistrates of a single-party military dictatorship, as the president of the Supreme People's Court (TSP), Rubén Remigio Ferro, recognized in a video recorded and edited in November 2018 and recently released by the Cuban independent press.
"We are not the judges of the enemy, nor the judges who are there to make things bad.We are the judges of the revolution. And the judges of the Party...We are not the enemy. "I can assure you that several of my colleagues are here, who would not allow lies about it, that the vast majority of our judges - I do not want to be absolute - respond to that vocation," he said then.the jurist of the dictatorship and president of the TSP since 1998.
Faced with this totalitarian logic that has perverted the spirit of the Cuban nation for more than sixty years, imposing through violence the project of domination of a caste of so-called “revolutionaries” whose main objective has been to perpetuate themselves in power, the art historian vindicates the historical value of two young Cubans, of humble origins, but with enough talent and courage to challenge the Cuban regime.
“I remember so many things they did to challenge the dictatorship. I remember Maykel's direct messages, how he reached people's hearts, how he was able to mobilize. I remember Luis's intransigence, his direct, enlightened protest,” recalled Barrero, a leading figure in the protests of November 27 and January 27, and for whose lucid and firm activism the regime forced her into exile.
The young political prisoners “were never able to cope with threats from State Security.” According to Carolina, “they were moved by the pain of the people, the suffering of the Cubans; “They gave their lives and their art to that.”
Precisely because of her empathy, her frankness and the direct connection that her words established with broad segments of the Cuban population, the young intellectual assured that “Luis and Maykel's place in our history is already sealed.”
Barrero, a young woman linked to the MSI and the group of artists, journalists and activists that took shape after the protests of November 27, 2021 (27N) - called in front of the Ministry of Culture in Havana after the eviction and repression suffered by the quartered at the MSI headquarters - has been one of the most lucid and critical voices of Cuban civil society that demands change and for Cubans to recover the rights, freedoms and sovereignty that the totalitarian regime has usurped from them.
Knowing the courage and the sharp verb of the rapper and the plastic artist, the young activist expressed her desire to be present in the judicial farce that the dictatorship mounts against them. “I would give anything now to hear what they are going to say at trial,” he said.
Informed ofthe repressive wave unleashed by the regime to prevent Cuban activists from approaching the court where they are being tried, Barrero said that it did not matter that activists in Cuba have not been able to express their solidarity. “We know where the truth is. We are with them,” he concluded before going out to demonstrate in Madrid, as hundreds of Cubans will do in Miami and cities around the world.
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