The Cuban activist Barbara Farrat Guillén, mother of 9/11 protester Jonathan Torres Farrat, asked for help this Thursday to rebuild the roof of her home in Havana, which collapsed.
In recent days the structure that supported the roof of the house began to creak in a strange way. Alarmed by the sound, she and the rest of the family took refuge in her mother's house, Ferrat told the media. Cubanet.
Immediately after hearing the sound of the tiles and beams collapsing, her son and husband went up, who confirmed the almost total collapse of the roof.
“The next day they knocked down another piece that had been left in the air,” lamented the woman, visibly affected after losing part of her house.
Farrat explained that the emotional ties that bind her to her home are very old; she mentioned, for example, that her son lived there, who was arrested for participating in the protests of July 11, 2021.
Orlando Ramirez Cutiño, the activist's husband, blamed the regime for the collapse of the roof of the house, for the difficulty in obtaining construction materials: "This is the product of 63 years of Revolution, of abandonment, poverty and misery."
Ramírez denounced that in the state stores one cannot find what is necessary to repair a house, at the same time he warned that in the informal market it is impossible to buy them because “a block costs you 200 pesos, a bag of cement 7,000 pesos”.
“But if we are going to build the tower of the fortress, there we do have materials", emphasized the activist who usually denounces acts of corruption and the violation of human rights committed by the regime.
Furthermore, he pointed out that the problem of access to materials affects all Cubans, and “As long as there is no change we will not be able to live as we should.”, he noted.
Last January, activist Farrat asked for help because he had no resources to support his family.
"Please, I need someone to help me. If I don't get help, I will have no choice but to sell my phone. I feel so sorry that I don't even dare to say the word. I am more than aware that my family "He doesn't eat out of pride and I'm in a pretty difficult situation," the woman wrote on her Facebook profile.
The message received numerous reactions from followers. A person asked him to detail what is happening to him and Farrat responded in a few words: "The problem is that I have nothing, no money, no food. Nothing." In another response he added: "They don't let me work and my situation is quite difficult."
Since her son's arrest, this woman's life has been turned upside down, becoming a defender of the young man and other people arrested for demonstrating in Cuba.
As a consequence, he has suffered from harassment by the regime. In 2022, for example, while suffering from dengue symptoms, denounced the threats received from State Security.
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