Young Cuban influencer expelled from school

The young Cuban teenagerReniel Rodriguez, who became known in November 2021 when he came out dressed in white and with a rose through the streets ofCardenas following the failed march of the15N, was expelled from his school after months of hostility towards him in his student center.

“My brother was the 15-year-old boy who came out on November 15 with the white flower and wasarrestedseveral days in Matanzas for this issue. I talked to him to delete everything, he removed everything, he was calm. All this time he has stayed out of everything. He has not made any more videos, he has not published anything anymore, he has remained on the sidelines," Rodniel Rodríguez, the minor's brother, denounced from the United States in statements toAmerica Camel.

However, despite these family pressures for Reniel to stop speaking out - something that is verified in his current profileTwitter, devoid of political content-During this time, the young teenager has not stopped being marked in a negative way in his student environment, according to his brother.

"Since he arrived at school there are teachers who have called him 'the stain', 'the marginalized boy who marched on November 15'. He has been strongly criticized at school, both by the director and by the teachers at the center," denounced Rodniel, who describes his brother as a hyperactive boy who likes to say what he thinks and have knowledge about everything, something that serves as his motivation. to research and study a lot.

Rodniel says that from school they explained that his brother"he committed indiscipline" because he had an argument with a Chemistry teacher, which earned him a sanction of several days outside the centerHowever, when it was his turn to return, they told him that "he had to start in high school," which they ended up interpreting as a covert expulsion.

"I want to make something very clear, I am doing this because I feel helpless for not being able to be by his side, supporting him in Cuba, for not being able to defend him from that professor who has made his life impossible," Rodniel reiterated. who took the opportunity to criticize those who reproached his mother at the time for saying that the authorities treated his brother well when he was detained.

“My mom is not going to say everything that really happened. It bothered me to see very strong comments about my mother, why, that she took away my brother's value and that's not it. If they have your son imprisoned and they ask him to spend 45 days under investigation and they tell you that they will release him if you say in public that they treated him well, what do you do? I say that they treated him well and that they let him go to me," Rodniel warned.

The young man took the opportunity to warn Cubans not to continue supporting activists "out of fashion" and reproached that many then forget about those who have been repressed or those who are still in jail for demonstrating., and cited the case of Luis Manuel Otero and other political prisoners that no one talks about anymore.

In November 2021, Reniel Rodríguez called on his native Cárdenas to take to the streets to ask for freedom. As a result, the regime locked him up in a behavioral school and pressured his family to stop speaking out on social media.

Reniel, known on social networks as "Lunatico Debates", published a video on November 15 where he joined the Civic March for Change called by the citizen platform Archipiélago, and asked the people to support it.

Before being taken to the police station, a member of the Communist Party, presumably guided by State Security, ordered him to delete the video of his march, and write a tweet in which he asked his followers not to continue spreading it, something that did.

Before 15N, from his Twitter account the teenager had not stopped criticizing the government, asking for the freedom of political prisoners and criticizing school indoctrination.