The art historian and activist Carolina Barrero Ferrer expressed her opinion on the power that the Citizenship Law project, which the regime intends to approve next July, gives to the ruler of the island.
"No frightened dictator is going to take away my nationality. Cubanness does not belong to the corrupt usurpers of our freedom. Neither the dictator's decrees, nor laws dictated without approval. When tyranny is a past memory, and everything is called by its name in history, I will continue to be a Cuban woman," Barrero wrote on his X social media account.
The Citizenship Bill project, published on the website of the National Assembly of the People's Power (ANPP) last Monday, establishes a series of principles such as effective citizenship, equality of rights, and addresses the acquisition, renunciation, loss, and recovery of citizenship, as well as its registration.
However, one concerning aspect is the powers it grants to the president of the Republic to deprive a Cuban of their citizenship.
Chapter III "Deprivation of Cuban Citizenship," stipulates in its article 54 that Cubans cannot be deprived of their citizenship, except for reasons established by law.
Next, article 55.1 establishes two causes: one is to enlist in any type of armed organization with the aim of attacking the territorial integrity of the Cuban state, its citizens, and other residents in the country.
The second reason is "from abroad, performing acts contrary to the high political, economic, and social interests of Cuba, whenever it is considered as such by the corresponding citizenship authority," a broad approach that could include any activity that the regime considers a threat, such as opponents or political activists.
On several occasions, Barrero has stated that the forced exile she was subjected to by the government of Havana is a strategy used for decades by the regime to divide Cubans.
"It only serves the power to separate us. The history of the struggle for civil and political rights is marked by exile; the history of Cuba cannot be understood without exile," she stated.
Barrero, one of the most visible activists in recent years on the island, was in Mykolaiv a few days ago, one of the cities facing the war between Russia and Ukraine, and from there she denounced that the Cuban regime sent young soldiers to die in that invasion, as part of the corrupt geopolitics orchestrated between Havana and Moscow.
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