The Cuban musician and opposition figure Gorki Águila Carrasco He finally left Cuba and arrived in Mexico this Monday, several days after his arbitrary arrest at the Havana airport by State Security, which prevented him from traveling.
“I'm happy to get out of hell, from the Castro extermination camp.", were the first words of the vocalist of the rock band Porno to Ricardo after arriving at the international airport in Mexico City, in what seems to be a trip with no return.
“They made me suffer enough so that I remembered never to return, but that is my land,” the artist stressed in a video recorded and uploaded to Facebook by Czech filmmaker and photographer Hana Jakrlova.
“They uprooted me from my land, but not by the roots.“Aguila warned. “There I have my roots... That is my homeland, that is my country, where I have my dead, where I made my project.”
In her publication, Jakrlova celebrated the musician's arrival on Mexican soil: "Better late than never: Gorki Luis Águila Carrasco is free!", and recalled that she was able to leave Cuba on a second attempt, because "the first time the police “He did not allow him to board the plane and arrested him.”
“Stay tuned for our movie documentary Permanent Gorki. We were filming the last years of Gorky's life in Cuba, and planned to follow him in his involuntary exile. “Freedom for Cuba!” stated the director.
The singer was arrested on May 3 by the political police of the Cuban regime, after prohibiting him from taking a flight to Mexico, claiming that it was “regulated,” an official term used by the authorities to prevent Cubans from traveling freely outside the country.
After officials from the Directorate of Identification, Immigration and Immigration of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior notified him of their immigration “regulation,” Águila protested the arbitrary decision and was immediately detained by repressive agents of the regime.
The artist was held for more than 24 hours at the Santiago de las Vegas police station, near the airport. During that period, Águila, who suffers from epilepsy, was detained without his medication and without eating food.
Before releasing him on the night of May 4, They imposed a fine of 2,000 pesos on a false charge of contempt..
Artists and human rights organizations demanded his immediate release.
Gorki Águila (Havana, 1968) is the author of anthological rebellious themes that marked the punk rock cuban like Commander, dedicated to the dictator Fidel Castro, and sneaky communist, addressed to the Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso-Grau.
Furthermore, he is a vocal activist against the totalitarian Cuban regime, for which he has suffered numerous arrests and has been a victim of permanent repression by State Security, through threats and censorship.
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