The young activistAmelia Calzadilla denounced the threats allegedly received by the Cuban regime, informing him of the decision to prohibit him from entering the country as a consequence of his exercise of free expression through his social networks.
In a recenttransmission, the young woman recounted the intimidation suffered by theState Security of the Cuban regime, after the demonstrations of support made by Calzadilla to a group of women who proposed their inclusion in a WhatsApp group to share their concerns as mothers and Cuban citizens.
Barely 24 hours after having expressed on their networks their support for this initiative of women of theCuban civil society, the regime's repressive apparatus was activated to pressure Calzadilla andthreaten him with exile if he continued to exercise his rights and activism.
“Not 24 hours had passed since that audio of mine and the major who followed me in Cuba was writing to me on my previous WhatsApp [not the current one with the Spanish number] to let me know in a very informal Cuban way that I was prohibited from entering Cuba,” Calzadilla said.
The young woman claimed not to have responded to the police officer.Ministerio del Interior (MININT), but he took advantage of his direct address to send him his response. “You and I are not friends. I don't have to respond to a WhatsApp. “There is no law in Cuba that forces me to respond to your messages.”
Given Calzadilla's silence, the “major” of State Security wrote to her husband's WhatsApp to tell him that she and he would not be allowed to enter Cuban territory.
“I came out with a clean criminal record. I do not have any pending case with Cuba. There is an official mechanism through the Cuban consulate in this country [Spain], where you send me a notification of the reasons why I can no longer enter the country,” Calzadilla told the repressor, inviting him to do his unpleasant thing. work in accordance with the law.
Calling the MININT officer a “pawn” at the service of “a higher mechanism,” the young woman wondered what legal basis of the regime means that “a Cuban citizen who does not agree with the government system cannot return to his country.” ”.
“So, you officially inform me why I cannot enter; nor my husband, because the arbitrariness is not limited to the sanction they want to impose on me. But also let me know how my three children, who are minors and Cuban citizens, with their family in Cuba, how can they return? Because here they only have my husband and me. How are they going to go to Cuba?” he asked, highlighting the regime's violation of the rights of minors.
Confessing his exhaustion with the regime's repression, Calzadilla said he felt “disgust for that Cuba where you have taken away people's dreams.”
“I hate that Cuba. But it is my right [to return], because I am a Cuban citizen. It is my right, my husband's right and my three children's right. To return. Oh, and the right of my daughters' father, who is in Cuba, to be able to see them and be with them," he added.
Outraged by the State Security officer's threats, the young woman called him a “coward” and called on him to defend his arguments on social media to violate the rights of her and her family members.
“I have no intention of going down in the history books of my country. But you are going to pass. But like Hitler, for being an oppressor, for serving as a mechanism to oppress people, to rob them of their right to dream, to rob them of their right to exist with dignity, with decorum... so that they do not kill themselves for bread. "That's you, that's what you represent," he snapped.
Victim of a new repressive maneuver against her, Calzadilla –who recently went into exile in Spain with her husband and children- demanded explanations about the new arbitrariness of prohibiting him from entering Cuba, and assured that this behavior of the repressors of the Cuban regime only confirms the need to have more presence on social networks tocontinue denouncing the injustices of the dictatorship.
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