Two Cuban political activists demonstrated at the house where Fidel Castro's father was born in Galicia, Spain, which was turned into a museum last year dedicated to showing what his life was like before emigrating to Cuba.
Arianna Sierra Herrera and Avana de la Torre showed up at the museum and unfurled the flag of Cuban political prisoners, hours before an official event took place on August 13 for Fidel's birthday.
"When we arrived there, at Ángel Castro's house, we saw the museum open and, inside the museum, I was able to open the flag. I expressed the things I feel and think. Once again, we have been one step ahead because they are going to have a party, an activity there, and there will be a lot of people from the dictatorship, and within their symbols, we were able to open the flag of the situation in Cuba," explained Avana de la Torre to Martí Noticias, an exile in Italy.
"This year, what I have done is prepare a box where I put 'I'm going to the donkey's birth' and in the same box, I placed the 'Pandora's Box.' Inside that box, I have documentation on all the companies that the Castros own, on all the scholarships they provide to their grandchildren for abroad, on all the money they waste. I opened the box, showed some things to unmask that plague, because it is not a family," he emphasized.
When Avana was outside the house showing images that depict the luxurious life that the members of the Castro family lead on the Island, a Cuban regime supporter approached her to confront her and accused her of telling lies.
"You have to leave me alone, you have to let me say and do what I want, because I live in a democracy," the activist emphasized.
Avana and Arianna, who resides in Belgium, take advantage of their journey along the Camino de Santiago - a route that runs through various points in Europe to Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, where the tomb of the apostle Santiago is located - to denounce the situation of political prisoners in Cuba.
The birthplace of Ángel Castro, father of the Castro Ruz family, is located in Láncara, in the municipality of Lugo. There, the socialist authorities inaugurated the Ángel Castro House Museum, in a ceremony attended by Emma Castro Ruz, the youngest of the emigrant Galician's children, who lives in Mexico, and her niece Mariela Castro Espín.
Raúl Castro sent a letter, read by Mariela, thanking for the invitation to the event and recalling his visits in 2005 and his brother Fidel's in 1992, after attending the Barcelona Olympics and the Ibero-American Summit in Madrid.
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