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Yordanka Battle: "They have offended me in the street calling me a black worm"

Yordanka related that there are those who affectionately tell her that she is a "timbalúa", but that all she does is speak loudly what everyone speaks softly, and demand her rights as a human being.

Yordanka Battle Moré © Facebook / Yordanka Battle Moré
Jordanka Battle More Photo © Facebook / Yordanka Battle Moré

The young CubanJordanka Battle More She reported that because of her publications on the Internet, people recognize her on the street, and that although there are people who treat her with affection, sometimes they have offended her and called her a "black worm."

Yordanka assured on his wall ofFacebook that they made her "influencer by force", but that she is an ordinary woman, and that she is even embarrassed when people greet her on the street.

"I'm not a celebrity or anything like that. Once there was even someone who asked me to take a photo with me. People have also offended me on the street calling me a 'black worm', but as the saying goes: in the Lord's vineyard there is everything." ", he pointed.

Facebook Capture / Yordanka Battle Moré

The young woman related that there are compatriots who affectionately tell her that she is a "timbalúa", but that in the end, all Cubans are, because to live in Cuba, where the game is "very tight", you have to be.

"The only thing I have done is two things: Speak loudly about what everyone speaks softly in lines and at stops, and demand and assert my rights as a human being. Hence the 'fame'. Only because we are so used to that they trample on us, that when someone does the opposite, it unconsciously makes a difference," he concluded.

Battle, who has become known for her criticism on social networks about the situation in the country, shared a video in which she criticized the passive attitude of Cubans towards the crisis they are experiencing and the government's management.

"Freedom is not a plate of food or a material possession. Freedom is one of the greatest things that a human being can experience, but the Cuban has not understood it. That is why I believe that to a certain extent, we Cubans "Those inside Cuba have what we deserve, because we have a slave mentality," he said.

The activist stated that she feels free, because she knows the Bible and cultivates her intellect daily, in addition to doing and saying what she thinks and does not bow to the absurd demands that many others abide by.

Last March, Yordanka Battle Moré celebrated the decision to think and express herself freely in Cuba, despite all the consequences that expressing her opinions publicly has brought her.

"Freedom has a price. Whoever speaks the truth suffers the consequences, and in this case, mine is not to do what you like," Battle Moré confessed.

The young woman, whoShe was fired from her job for her posts., said that he missed the contact with his former colleagues and everything he did at his center, but that he was aware that he did not want to "have to sell his soul to the communists" again.

"I don't want to have to pretend to agree with something I don't share again. I don't want to have to deal with well-to-do people who enjoy their position left and right and over-demand their subordinates. I don't want to work anymore for 4,410 Cuban pesos (27 dollars) and not being able to indulge in the smallest pleasures like enjoying a good coffee by the sea," he explained.

During the last few months he has suffered harassment and threats from theState Security, which has summoned her for questioning and even threatened to accuse her of the alleged crime of instigation to commit a crime due to her publications on the Internet.

"You are summoning the masses, and thiscan be understood as a crime of instigation to commit a crime", they told them.

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