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State Security warned Aleaga Pesant that it will prevent him from acting as an electoral observer

A G-2 official warned the opponent that they would prevent his performance as an independent electoral observer and put pressure on him again with his banishment.

Julio Aleaga Pesant, opositor cubano © Cortesía del entrevistado
Julio Aleaga Pesant, Cuban opponent Photo © Courtesy of the interviewee

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State Security warned Julio Aleaga Pesant that they will prevent his performance as an independent electoral observer in this Sunday's elections and reiterated the pressure for a possible exile, said the opponent.

Choose He was summoned by the G-2 at the Zapata y C police station, in the Havana neighborhood of Vedado; where he remained from eleven in the morning until around four in the afternoon this Friday, without being able to have lunch, stripped of his identity card and sitting on a bench in the folder for three hours.

The G-2 officer, who days before had intervened in ahostile act against Aleaga, opened the interrogation by alluding to the possible exile of the opponent, who responded by demanding to be removed from the list of Cubans (regulated) who are prohibited by the government from traveling abroad and clarified to his interrogator that personal decisions were decided by him and his family; free of prohibitions and threats.

The interrogator then addressed this Sunday's elections, asking Aleaga if he intended to participate as an independent observer, who responded yes, and was warned by the State Security officer that they would prevent it.

This Sunday, Cuba holds general elections for the election of deputies to the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), who will vote on a candidate for the Council of State and this, in turn, will appoint the president and vice president of the Republic.

The authorities, concerned about theabstention and even though hevote in Cuba It is not mandatory, they have unleashed a campaign of harassment against citizens; pressuring them to vote and postponingunpopular decisions.

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Carlos Cabrera Pérez

CiberCuba journalist. He has worked at Granma Internacional, Prensa Latina, IPS and EFE agencies correspondents in Havana. Director Tierras del Duero and Sierra Madrileña in Spain.


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