The Cuban regime rejected a former State Security agent deported from the U.S.

The Cuban regime rejected a former State Security agent who was deported from the United States and sent him back to Miami on the same plane he traveled to Havana.

Saul Santos Ferro, 78 years old, was part of the group of 48 Cubans returned to Cuba last Tuesday. However, the Cuban government did not accept him, and it is now believed that he is living freely in Miami.

Santos Ferro was sentenced in 2019 to six months in prison for lying to immigration authorities to obtain a permanent resident visa in the United States, and his deportation was ordered.

After serving for decades as the head of State Security in San Cristóbal, Artemisa province, he obtained a visitor visa in Havana and traveled to the United States in 2012.

The following year, he applied for permanent residence under the Cuban Adjustment Act, and it was then that he distorted the information about his relationships with the regime, as he denied having been involved in any organization or police activity, or having worked in prisons or detention centers.

Immigration lawyer Santiago Alpízar reminded America TeVe that Santos Ferro is the first identified oppressor by his victims in exile, who was convicted in Miami for lying to U.S. immigration authorities about his past and deported to the Island.

"Here lives among us someone who committed serious human rights violations in Cuba, who was sanctioned by a federal court for lying on applications and requests for Immigration beneficiaries, and who in addition to that was sanctioned to be expelled from the country. However, that sentence has still not been executed," he questioned.

Santiago Alpízar is the vice president of the organizations Cubademanda and Cuba Represión ID, which reported the former regime official to the FBI after several of his victims recognized him a few years ago in a market in Miami.

Thanks to this, the repressor was arrested in February 2019. Months later, he was tried and sentenced by a judge from the Southern District of Florida, in addition to six months in prison, to two years of probation and a restitution of more than $12,000.

By then, he had already pleaded guilty in a federal court in Miami and admitted that he was a military member in Cuba, although he clarified that when he traveled to the United States, he was retired and working for himself.

After the sentence was pronounced, one of his victims, a resident of Miami, recounted to América TeVe the torture and mistreatment she suffered at the hands of Santos Ferro while she was imprisoned in Cuba.

"I was in prison for 10 years because I was accused of illicit association, enemy propaganda, and they also wanted to charge me with sabotage, but they couldn't," assured Martín Izaguirre García.

"Inside the prison, we experienced repression from the jailers because State Security orders them to harass you. I don't like to kick someone when they're down; I know what it is to be imprisoned, but he was one of the perpetrators. He caused me a lot of harm, he ordered that things be done to me, he tortured my family. Everything that happened was a crime against my person," he denounced.