Ex-combatant in Angola denounces government threats: "They're looking for a way to arrest me"

The ex-combatant in Angola, Pascual Zúñiga, resident in Baracoa, Guantánamo, denounced the abandonment of the Cuban State towards the internationalists and the political police threatened to take him to prison.

Through his social networks, Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDC) referred to the case of Zúñiga and warned that the State is trying to create a criminal offense against the former combatant. false crime of attack and disobedience.

"Pascual Zúñiga, in Baracoa, Guantánamo, is threatened with a false crime of attack and disobedience for denouncing on several occasions his total abandonment situation by the Cuban State, despite being a former combatant in the Angolan war," they indicated on Twitter.

Zúñiga had explained in an interview with the OCDH last August that his situation is extremely precarious. The degree of poverty in which he lives is such that he must go out to the streets to beg for food because he does not have the resources to even prepare a plate of food a day.

"They are looking for a way to put me in prison for telling the truth about the things that are happening, what is happening with my life. I do not have anything, and I want the whole world to know it. I have nothing and I am an internationalist," he commented.

The ex-combatant carried out an internationalist mission in Angola, for three years, as a weapons engineer. He was in 60 combat operations and saw many of his comrades die. Upon returning to Cuba, a medical commission evaluated his health case and declared him "diminished capacity."

Since then he has lived in his town of Baracoa and has seen how his quality of life is gradually getting worse. SHe survives thanks to the charity of his neighbors.

In July the OCDH denounced the State repression against people who demand political changes and asked the democratic governments of the world to speak out in favor of the Cuban people, who suffer a tense political, economic and social situation.

"The situation is explosive. The regime must know, and the international community must demand it, that the problems will not be solved with greater repression of popular protests," said the NGO after learning that Cubans residing in Matanzas and Villa Clara protested against the blackouts.