The eldest daughter of Cuban sports journalist Armando Campuzano, Wendolín (Wendy) Campuzano Almaguer, is facing a criminal trial in Cuba with a request for a six-year prison sentence and the threat of losing custody of her three minor children, in what her father denounces as a direct reprisal for the publication of his critical book against Castroism.
Wendy posted a video on Facebook last Saturday from her home in Havana, where she reported that two officers from the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) and a state security agent were threatening and intimidating her.
"I am being threatened and intimidated by two officers from the PNR and one from State Security. I am in the middle of a criminal process where they are asking for six years, six years in prison, and I have done nothing," she stated.
The trial is scheduled for this Wednesday, April 15th.
The young mother also reported that the authorities are threatening to send her three children—Yacer, 12; Isabela, five; and Rebeca, three—to a boarding school far away from their parents. "How is it possible to separate three minors, aged three, five, and twelve, from their parents? It would destroy a family," she asked in the video.
In his Facebook post, Armando Campuzano revealed a detail about the case. In his daughter's conversation with the police officers, one of the State Security agents lost control and explicitly told her: "You will pay for your father's worm".
Campuzano, former sports commentator of Televisión Cubana for over 30 years and a resident of Canada since 2017, directly links the backlash to the publication of his book "Cuba, the Titanic of the Caribbean" (2025), in which he denounces crimes and abuses of the Castro regime over more than 60 years.
The journalist recounted that before publishing the book, he consulted with his daughter, aware that she would be the one to face the consequences of staying on the island. Wendy's response was clear: "Go for it, Dad, there's no fear here."
The formal charges against Wendy are related to a commercial property assigned to her by the government and an alleged assault on an internal security officer.
Her father describes them as a pretext: "The housing issue and the assault on an interior enforcement officer are pure nonsense, just a mere excuse to unleash all their rage and hate against my daughter."
Wendy also posted a message on Facebook where she rejected the accusations: "I am not a criminal; they are the criminals, who because they wear a uniform exercise abuse of power, to pressure people, separate families, separate children from their parents. I demand justice."
Campuzano noted that about a year ago he had already received an anonymous phone call in which he was subtly threatened concerning his children, indicating that the harassment against his family is not recent.
The case fits into a documented pattern of the Cuban regime using relatives who remain on the island as a means of pressure against dissidents in exile.
The Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Press documented 114 assaults on freedom of expression in Cuba just in January 2026, within the context of a repressive escalation linked by human rights organizations to the tightening of international pressures on Havana.
"I will not be intimidated in the slightest, and even less will they silence me," Campuzano warned in his video, addressing the regime's agents directly.
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