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A mother from Santiago with three minor children was detained in recent hours after participating in a protest for the lack of water and electricity in the El Carmen neighborhood, in Mar Verde, Santiago de Cuba.
The woman, identified as Mailyn Gondre LaO, becomes the second person arrested following that community protest demanding basic services, according to reported the journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada.
Mailyn, only 30 years old, lives in precarious conditions with her three children—aged 6, 7, and 9—and her sick mother.
Part of her house is missing a roof, and the children sleep without mattresses. Neighbors in the area stated that she is not an agitator, but rather "a desperate mother who only asked for water and electricity to survive."
According to residents who spoke to Mayeta, the authorities informed that the woman would be taken for sanitation services and that she could be transferred to the Operations Center in Versalles, although they have not explained the reasons for her arrest.
The community is worried about the fate of the three minors and the elderly sick woman who were left without their care, emphasized the communicator.
“The detention of Mailyn is not only painful, but also alarming,” wrote Mayeta, who recalled that the mother’s plea was not political, but rather human: to ensure the well-being of her children.
Residents of El Carmen wonder how many more arrests there will be for demanding the bare minimum to live, highlighted the communicator.
In October, the Cuban doctor Erlis Sierra Gómez, a pediatrician and father of two children, was transferred handcuffed from Contramaestre to Santiago de Cuba, following his arrest days earlier amid the wave of repression unleashed by the regime after a “cacerolazo” in Baire that took place in that locality.
Later, Ania Gómez Leiva, the mother of the Cuban doctor, was also arrested after posting a video demanding her son's freedom.
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