After several months of harassment On the part of State Security, the Cuban activist Diasniuka Salcedo Verdecia left Cuba this Saturday under threat of prison.
"I had to leave Cuba, I had to leave behind most of my children, only two options for me: leave Cuba, my homeland, my land, the one I love and for which I have fought head-on for more than 14 years; or go to prison to serve an unjust 8-year sentence," he said in an emotional post on Facebook.
She reported that they harassed her "until the last moment at the airport" and that they "expelled her for thinking differently, for defending my rights and those of many."
He said that appeals to his eight-year sentence handed down in 2022 for alleged “outrage to national symbols” and “instigation to commit a crime” were of no use.
She also stated that State Security did not let her travel with her son Alain even though she had purchased the plane ticket.
Likewise, she had to say goodbye to several of the children in her care – orphans, children of prisoners or abusive parents – that she adopted more than four years ago, and whose custody they threatened to take away Some weeks ago.
"I can't say anything more because I'm living a nightmare from which I want to wake up!!! Whoever doubts that there is a dictatorship in Cuba has simply never experienced such shamelessness. I need peace for my heart and a lot of strength. I don't know how I can get up without my children like???", he commented on his publication.
In videos filmed at the airport, you can see how a supposed airport worker checks her passports and asks her to accompany her to an office without her bag or phone.
Salcedo Verdecia does not indicate the country she traveled to or the number of children she was able to take with her, but in an image she is shown hugging two of them on the plane.
Since Salcedo stood with a group of mothers in front of the Ministry of Public Health in Havana at the end of November to demand medical attention for several sick children and denounce the crisis of the health system on the island, State Security intensified the harassment to silence her with the threat of taking away her children.
The activist was brought to trial for this reason on December 13 and visited by a commission of the FMC, the CDR and social workers, who called her a “bad influence” on minors and warned her that they could stop the process to grant her legal custody.
For about four years, the Cuban took in and has under her care five children – orphans, with parents who were imprisoned or who abused them – and was in the process of obtaining their legal custody.
Salcedo made these details of his private life public in the face of intimidation and intimidation by the political police in relation to his family.
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