Leoni Torres on political prisoners: “You are the future heroes”

The popular musician Leoni Torres He expressed his solidarity with the Cuban political prisoners whom he described as the “future heroes” of the country, while denouncing the regime's repression and calling for the release of all those imprisoned for reasons of conscience.

"This is what the Cuban government has dedicated itself to for many years. They are not good at improving the economy of a country and much less at satisfying the most basic needs of the people. What are they really good at? In repressing, manipulating, destroying, separating , lying, mistreating,” Torres said this Saturday through his social networks.

Taking advantage of the celebration of Human Rights Day, the artist shared in Facebook the direct that he made the day before Tahirí Lorenzo Prado, the mother of the 9/11 protester Andy Garcia Lorenzo, during his solo protest for his son's freedom.

The young activist would have been threatened with death in prison, according to what he told his mother in a phone call. Outraged and anguished by the life of her son, Lorenzo Prado He held State Security responsible for the physical integrity of the political prisoner during a protest in which he walked down Second Street in La Vigía to the Villa Clara Prosecutor's Office, carrying a sign demanding the prisoner's freedom.

"I just spoke with Andy and he is being threatened in prison that he will receive a beating. I hold State Security responsible for my son's physical integrity," he said. "You are criminals, the real murderers are you who are ordering the killing of political prisoners inside the jail. Not one more death threat against my son," the woman added desperately.

Moved by the courage and integrity of Cubans like those of the García Lorenzo family, the musician joined the complaint, conveyed his support and denounced the leaders of the totalitarian regime who every day deepen the inequalities in Cuba, while they enrich themselves with the corruption they promote with total impunity.

“Meanwhile, their children and grandchildren live the good life,” Torres said of the Cuban rulers. “My respects to this family and to everyone who goes through something like this. You are the future heroes. “Freedom for Andy and for all political prisoners!” he concluded.

Acclaimed by the Cuban public, Torres has been growing and maturing as an artist committed to freedom on the Island, whose reality he often refers to to denounce the country's crisis, the bad government of the so-called "continuity", or the repression revealed by the violent nature of a regime clinging to power.

"They just murdered 7 people including a 2-year-old girl and this guy is on television saying how many more do they have to kill to get what they want? This is the last straw for God's sake!️ The level of evil of these traitors to their people has no limits."commented the interpreter following the words of the MININT colonel who appeared on Cuban television to blame the United States for the sinking of the Bahía Honda boat.

In mid-September, Torres shared a brief reflection through his social networks, in which he dismantled the Cuban regime's discourse about the “external enemy” and concluded that the true fear of the rulers is towards their own people.

“More than 60 years telling the people that we had to prepare to fight an enemy that never came, nor will come. But who is the enemy?... 'The people'. 'The combat order is given'... “The leaders hate their own people.”, said the artist on his social networks.