Police arrest Diasniurka Salcedo and her husband after searching their home

The Cuban opposition member Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia, remembered for her struggle to manage medicines and help people in need on the island, was arrested this Thursday after a surprise search of her home.

The news was learned thanks to a brave live broadcast from the patrol car that was supposedly taking her to the Alquízar police station.

With her hidden cell phone, the woman managed to record her repressors and send a message in which she assures that these "murderers, criminals, gangsters, thieves are taking me to prison for thinking differently."

"It's not fair that you imprison a woman for thinking differently, you don't have food, medicine for your children, you don't have anything either. Why are you imprisoning me?" the activist questions them.

Why do they have to make a record that way, why? The only thing I do isthink differently, help those who don't have it. "You are murderers, criminals," she tells them, visibly angry.

"Where are they going to go when this thing falls, it's almost there, where?" Salcedo shouts in a moving video that has caused outrage on social networks, due to the psychological violence to which the opponent is subjected.

"Down with the dictatorship, they are putting me in prison for thinking differently," he concluded.

Salcedo and her husband were victims of a surprise police search of their home this Thursday, in which the authorities took their belongings.

According to Ketty Méndez, another Cuban woman frequently repressed for her complaints on social networks, the search was carried out by State Security, the Ministry of the Interior (Minint) and the Police. Images posted by her show the moment when the agents load items belonging to the family into a jeep.

Salcedo is a hairdresser, and she and her family are dedicated to raising animals, working the land and helping people in need. When the drug crisis affected dozens of Cuban children in 2021, the woman was recognized formanage help (especially antibiotics, pain relievers and anti-scabies medications) through social networks for the sick.

Then she fell seriously ill, andHe almost lost his life due to the absence of an antibiotic in hospitals.. However, the solidarity of Cubans living abroad sent him the medicine and he was able to overcome his critical condition.

Salcedo has been harassed by the police several times for this type of humanitarian work. In September 2020, she was violently detained when she was preparing to deliver some medicine to people who live in extreme poverty with a child with a heart condition.

In January 2021, he was fined 2,000 pesos during an inspection because it was considered that he was carrying out his hairdressing activity “illegally.” In March of that same year, she was detained for a few hours by some plainclothes officers, who, after several threats, left her lying in the middle of a mountain.