The activist and Lady in White, Leticia Ramos Herrería, asks for help for the Cuban Daniel Candelario Santovenia, who was taken 27 years on the island for participating in an armed infiltration from the United States.
Ramos Herrería in his profile Facebook He said this Sunday that Santovenia was run over by a horse-drawn carriage in Cardenas, where he resides, and was quite bruised and sore.
“Some drunken HP ran over him with a horse-drawn carriage and hit him very hard, he is badly beaten. My son was with him in the hospital, thank God there were no fractures, although I do not trust any diagnosis that comes from this dome. He is well beaten and sore. And the saddest thing is that they left him lying on the road,” said the Matanzas activist in her publication.
She also explained that she never asks for anything for herself, even if she is dying of hunger, “but I need someone to donate a hearing aid so that Santovenia can hear, because the prison left him almost deaf and he does not hear the sound of cars or horse-drawn carriages.” "There is so much in this city."
“Please, whoever can help with this little device, which is not so expensive, I will thank you for life,” said the Lady in White.
He also recalled that Santovenia lost all of her youth, in addition to stopping raising her children, to dedicate herself to the freedom of Cuba.
“He came from the comfort of living in the United States to fight for the freedom of Cuba and it cost him 30 long years in prison. Thirty years that he served until the last day in the most severe prisons in Cuba and he never gave up or agreed," said the activist, who shares photos with Santovenia so that her physical deterioration can be appreciated.
“Daniel Santovenia is only 67 years old and looks like he is 80. I put the other photos so you can see the physical deterioration he has at the moment. “It doesn’t even weigh 100 pounds,” he further said.
Ramos Herrería in his publication thanked the help that other colleagues have given him such as Ángel de Fana, Mercedes Perdigón, Iliana Curra, Noelia Pedraza, Yoel Rodríguez Riverón, Emilo Vázquez, Hector Fabián, among others.
He added that Santovenia has a roof over his head “thanks to brave brothers in the struggle” who took out of their pockets to buy him a small room “which is not the best, but at least he does not get wet nor does he live on the mercy of the common prisoners who “They were in prison with him.”
“This man has suffered what no one can imagine and he is still standing and wanting to liberate Cuba. Whatever their method of struggle, you have to respect it, lame***, because not all of them leave the comfort of exile to come and risk it here,” he says in his message.
In 2018, The Cuban government released Daniel Santovenia, who was arrested for participating in an armed infiltration organized from Florida by the anti-Castro National Democratic Union Party.
Santovenia, arrested on December 29, 1991 along with Pedro Álvarez Pedroso and Eduardo Díaz Betancourt, faced an original sentence of 30 years in prison. The group was intercepted by Cuban soldiers as soon as they landed on the coast of Cárdenas, Matanzas.
"I came to Cuba to fight for the freedom of my country, to give a free homeland to my children," Santovenia told Radio Marti on that occasion from the Matanzas town of Colón, after his release from the Agüica prison, in that province.
According to a work by the Cuban writer Ángel Santiesteban, the Santovenia group was recruited by the National Democratic Unity Party, then led by Sergio González, to create guerrillas and sabotage industries on the Island.
These opponents would form a front to fight against the dictatorship, which they assumed was already in its last moments after the fall of the socialist camp.
Santovenia's father spent two years in a Cuban prison in the early 1960s for participating in the Bay of Pigs invasion.
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