The director of the National Circus of Cuba, Milagros Luis Alfonso, refused to receive this Tuesday a letter in favor of the artist Rosmery Almeda Tapia (Alma Poet), who is detained after participate in a peaceful protest in Havana.
Arian Lázaro Cruz Álvarez (Tata Poet), partner of the detained young woman, delivered this Monday two copies of the letter to the Attorney General's Office and the National Center of Art Schools of Cuba (CNEArt).
The Cuban official argued that she would not receive the letter because it was already published on Facebook and she had read it.
"I love the Revolution, and I love Fidel," Luis Alfonso expressed to Cruz Álvarez, who never reached an understanding with the director of the National Circus of Cuba.
Almeda Tapia was arrested on September 30 for recording the protests that took place in Havana after the passage of Hurricane Ian and that They were repressed by soldiers dressed in civilian clothes, in which other Cuban artists and young people were also arrested.
State Security is trying to accuse her of the crime of contempt, something that her family and friends flatly deny because the young artist did not say anything during the incident, she only recorded what happened.
"She couldn't record without my authorization," said the director of the National Circus of Cuba, to argue another reason why she was not willing to receive the letter.
The artist's boyfriend asked the official if in her free time she also had the power to decide what she could or could not do and if she considered it a crime to record on public roads.
"Mrs. Milagros, I have nothing against you, this is not personal, I have only asked you to do your job, nothing more. As a director, you have the duty to look after all your workers, and not turn your back on them. Whatever you think, you as director of this institution have the obligation not to remain silent in the face of any injustice committed against one of your artists such as the case of Rosmery Almeda Tapia," wrote Cruz Álvarez.
Likewise, the board criticized that the young circus girl distributed medicines to needy people in Cuba in an altruistic manner, thanks to the donation made by Cubans in exile.
"Medicines were for human beings, and condemning solidarity, and penalizing what his father Fidel instilled in him, is in itself a crime," the young man snapped.
At the end of the meeting Cruz Álvarez recalled that currently in Cuba there are hundreds of families destroyed because they have someone imprisoned in prison for political reasons, especially after participating in popular demonstrations against the government's management.
"It is evident that it is not your daughter who is stuck between bars. It is evident that you do not see Rosmery's mother crying day and night, that is very evident. I hug her, and the day an injustice is committed against her person, do not doubt that I will be there to defend you," he stressed.
Rosmery Almeda Tapia has been detained for more than 16 days at the 100 and Aldabó, in Havana, and although he has had a family visit, the pain caused by remaining in this condition unjustly is still evident.
"I am not going to stay silent and I am not afraid, everything I see done wrong I am going to report to the entire world, for my children and my people," the detainee's mother wrote on Facebook.
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