Cuban Dévora Díaz, who lives in Miami, reported the disappearance of her two nephews after the protests that took place in Matanzas as part of the days of demonstrations that have shaken Cuba in the last week.
Distraught over the fate of her nephews, Díaz has not slept for a week, as she confessed in an interview withTelemundo51. “They are young people who realized the lie, the youth of today no longer believe what Canel says,” he declared.
“It is not known where they are. They are lost,” the aunt denounced before the television cameras. These are Alejandro Rodríguez and José Ángel Cubas, residents of the province of Matanzas, who, according to the aunt, are being asked for 30 years of deprivation of liberty.
“One of them is the one who started the demonstration in Cuba, he even left a letter written,” he said in reference to the early participation of his relatives in protests that, according to analysts, had no leadership or planning, but rather They happened like a chain reaction, enhanced by social networks, after the popular and spontaneous outbreak in San Antonio de los Baños.
The letter to which Díaz refers is a poem that one of his nephews shared through social and messaging networks, and which under the title “My legacy” says:
“I am not looking for fame / I am not looking for glory / I am looking for truth / Freedom and history // Taking off the blindfold is easy / Uniting is even easier / Cuba rises / Jovellanos rises / And to the voice of many throats // To the cry of the multitude, my people sing / Homeland and life, that Cuba can no longer stand / I will fight for Jovellanos / Even though my legs break / Today my mambí soul grows bigger.”
“The youth of today is no longer what it used to be. Now there is the Internet and they realize that everything that Díaz-Canel, the revolution, Raúl Castro is saying is a lie… We have experienced fear, terror, repression… So, the time has come to say Enough is Enough!”, stated the aunt. of some young people from Matanzas who remain missing after their arrest for participating in spontaneous and peaceful demonstrations.
Alejandro Rodríguez and José Ángel Cubas are part of the hundreds of young Cubans who have been detained and retaliated against since the protests broke out in Cuba. This Monday the news brokea group of Cuban mothers who met outside the prison at 100 and Aldabó, in Havana, in order to know the situation in which their children are detained.
Another case in Matanzas, that of the young Glenda de la Caridad Marrero Cartaya (15 years old) was reported by relatives toTelemundo51. Arrested last Wednesday in Cuba, she was accused of promoting the social outbreak in the town of Jovellanos in the province of Matanzas on social media, according to her family, who reported that Glenda has been held in a juvenile prison for 72 hours.
For her part, activist Salomé García Bacallao denouncedthe disinterest of the Ministry of Education (MINED) for the fate and status of at least nine minors, whose families have reported that their whereabouts are unknown or detained without being able to contact or see them, and demand their release.
“When we talk about forced disappearance it is because the place of detention is not known”clarified lawyer Laritza Diversent, director of the NGO Cubalex, interviewed inThe Mornings of CiberCuba.
“This, according to the International Convention to Control Forced Disappearance, is a case of disappearance,” said the lawyer and pointed out the need to make visible the situation of the victims of these arbitrary acts.
“We invite listeners who know a person who has been detained, even if they are already free, to please contact us,” the lawyer asked. Cubalex can be contacted through the telephone number +1901 7080230 by WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal. The NGO also receives complaints through Facebook messaging and email info@cubalex.org.
Meanwhile, the United Nations (UN) this Thursday demanded that the Cuban regimean urgent search action for 187 people who have been subject to forced disappearance after the repression ordered by the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel.
In addition, the United Nations Committee against Forced Disappearances demanded that the Cuban authorities identify the perpetrators of the disappearances, demanding that the victims' relatives be present in this process.
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