Police summons mother of Cuban child who told the truths to Diaz-Canel in Santiago de Cuba.

The political police of Cuba has summoned Lisandra Rivera Rodríguez to appear before State security in the city of Santiago de Cuba, following the dissemination on social networks of a video in which her son openly criticizes the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel.

Two sector bosses just came to my house to tell me that I have been summoned by State Security for the third unit, known as La Motorizada," Rivera reported on Facebook.

The young mother, who is an opponent of the Cuban regime and a former political prisoner, posted a video on Facebook last Monday in which her four-year-old son harshly criticizes Díaz-Canel, "telling the truth" to the ruler.

The child, in a video posted by his mother, reflected his family's discontent: “Canel, you have no dignity or common sense”, “because of your bad inclination, I would pay not to see you”, and “I would pay to hide you”, are some of the phrases he expressed.

This incident takes place in a context of political tension in Cuba, where freedom of expression and the government's response to criticisms are delicate issues.

Rivera's situation, the mother of the child, is an example of how families face challenges when expressing their opinions in the country.

In relation to the summons that the young mother is facing, the independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta expressed on Facebook: "I demand that the harassment of Cuban opposition families be stopped. We will be aware of everything," suggesting that Rivera could be subject to harassment by the Cuban political police in the coming days.

In its eagerness to silence the citizenship, the regime commits all kinds of abuses.

In 2023, the daughter of Cuban dissidents Marisol Peña Cobas and José Luis Acosta, a seven-year-old girl, was taken from her school and interrogated by officials from the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) of Camagüey, without the presence of her parents.

Quoted like that, without warning or anything," said the opposition leader in a video, arguing that the reason was "for not teaching her daughter to love the revolution."

That same year, social media users shared a complaint about police abuse against a 14-year-old girl in the city of Holguin.

In some place in Cuba, repression against the people continues, this time agents are beating and violating the rights of a 14-year-old minor," says the user identified as Luciana on Twitter, who shares a video showing two police officers, a man and a woman, confronting a person who came out to defend the minor.