Cuban imprisoned in Mexico faces the "Judicial Power cartel"

He is part of the Movement for Justice, Freedom, Due Process, and Human Rights and calls for international organizations to intervene in his case. He is accused of sexual abuse by his ex-wife.


Néstor Damián Gámez González, the young Cuban who has been imprisoned in a jail in Mexico since June 12, 2023, has stated in an audio sent from the prison to CiberCuba that he remains in prison for confronting "the cartel of the Judiciary" in Toluca (State of Mexico). He is asking for help from international organizations responsible for protecting human rights.

"This is a business. They (the judges) profit from having us here (in jail)," says Néstor Damián Gámez, who reports from prison that both he and the others who are behind bars are legally helpless. "We have no voice," he says.

And this is the reason why he leads the Movement for Justice, Freedom, Due Process, and Human Rights, which, as he explains, gives hope to prisoners and encourages them to raise their voices and join the fight against the corruption of the Judiciary of the State of Mexico.

Furthermore, it claims that the municipal police of Toluca (State of Mexico) would have orchestrated the attempted murder of his mother, Ana Karelia González, who is in hiding because she fears for her life. This operation would have been led by Commander Enrique Heriberto Almazán.

According to Gámez González's version, the police "mobilized eleven officers" to attack his mother "cowardly," who had to be treated for the injuries sustained in a brawl that occurred in a courthouse. Nevertheless, Judge Pablo Ortiz González linked Néstor Damián Gámez to the case, even though the footage from the fight clearly shows that he was a victim and not the aggressor.

The young Cuban filed a legal protection request, which ruled in his favor, but the magistrate refused to release him because, in the opinion of Nestor Damián Gámez, who has been in prison for 15 months, they were buying time to fabricate another arrest warrant against him. This time, for a crime of extortion, issued by the family judge whom he approached to allow him to see his autistic son, with whom he had not had contact since the separation of the couple.

In this supposed maneuver to keep him in prison, Judge Pedro Pablo Villalba allegedly collaborated, whom Nestor Damián Gámez accuses of procedural fraud for supposedly having altered the date of the legal protection issuance (August 14, 2023). They would have conspired to simulate that the legal protection was issued on August 18.

After this incident, the case of Nestor Damián Gámez was restarted with another judge. This time, with Judge Mario Benito Flores Martínez.

Gámez González was accused by his ex-wife of a sexual abuse crime following a brawl that took place on April 8, 2023, in the Family Courts of Toluca (State of Mexico). The magnitude of the altercation between the two parties was such that the fight was featured in Mexican news broadcasts. The judge issued preventive detention, even though this precautionary measure is applied in serious cases. Since then, he is not only in prison but has also faced increasing accusations against him.

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Tania Costa

(La Habana, 1973) lives in Spain. She has directed the Spanish newspaper El Faro de Melilla and FaroTV Melilla. She was head of the Murcia edition of 20 minutos and Communications advisor to the Vice Presidency of the Government of Murcia (Spain).


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