State Security detains and removes donations for children from a journalist in Camagüey

State Security detained independent Cuban journalist José Luis Tan Estrada and took away the donations that the young man had collected for people in need.

In a post titled "Help: a threat to State Security" the reporter denounces that the repressors detained him when leaving his house and "took away his cell phone and his backpack, in which he carried medications, mainly insulin, and donations." for children at the Pediatric Hospital".

He states that his repressors, Major Cristian and Captain Marcelo, indicated that they would not deliver the medicines to the children because they were "bought by counterrevolutionaries"; and they prohibited her from taking the donations to Daimarelis, a teenager from Najasa, because they were also "counterrevolutionary."

In addition, they took away his internet access on his phone and took him in a blue Lada to Villa María Luisa, headquarters of the State Security in Camagüey, said the former university professor.

There they locked him in a room with a young instructor named Rafael to interrogate and threaten him for his activism seeking help for needy people in the province.

"Cristian, out loud, tells me that I was there as a "counterrevolutionary" and to bring "aid donated by counterrevolutionaries," and they "were not going to accept or allow anything from the enemy," that I "did not have legal personality nor did I work in no legal organization," said Tan Estrada.

They told him that they had supposed "evidence" that they did not show that the aid "is from the counterrevolution" and that "the Ministry of the Interior will not let people like you discredit the country."

In addition, they mentioned the activist Yamilka Lafita, known on social networks as Lara Crofs, whom they described as "a bad influence", something that Cuban officials have reiterated amid the young woman's constant complaints about children in need of urgent treatment. that are not being treated on the island.

State Security told the journalist that "behind every aid there is a plan to destabilize the "Revolution", to which he responded that the "only plan is to help out of love for those" that the "Revolution has destroyed and abandoned." ".

Later they accused him "of speaking ill of the "revolutionary process" in Camagüey"; and they insisted that "if he did not agree with the system" he should leave the country.

At the end of the interrogation, the young man was threatened with the opening of a criminal file. "We have you in our sights as a counterrevolutionary," they clarified.

In 2022 Tan Estrada wasexpelled from the University of Camagüey "Ignacio Agramonte" for his political positions and criticism of the government on social networks; and since then he has dedicated himself to bringing aid – mainly sent to the island by Cuban emigrants – to sick people amid the shortage of medicines in the country.

However, both he and Lafita have become uncomfortable with the regime due to their complaints about the collapse of the Cuban Health system.