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The Cuban activist Yamilka Lafita, known on social media as Lara Crofs, was detained this Saturday in Havana by agents of the Cuban regime, as publicly reported by her partner, Daniela Peral, via Facebook.
Lara Crofs has just been taken into custody. "If you know where it says danger," Peral wrote on his profile, alerting the activist community about the whereabouts of the detained individual.
Hours before her arrest, Lara Crofs herself had documented and reported on her Facebook account the presence of two individuals monitoring the surroundings of her house, identified as State Security agents.
"My neighbors inform me that there are two individuals, not from the area, intensely fighting over the little shade available on my block. The sun is blazing, and the heat, 30 degrees in the shade is what the thermometer reads," wrote the activist with characteristic irony.
In that same post, Lafita described the behavior of the agents: "I can’t imagine how much they’re being paid, those guys who run and are afraid of the camera, covering their faces to avoid being identified. But as soon as I show up, they pull out their old little phones to film my movements."
The activist also took the opportunity to demand the release of the intellectual Alina Bárbara López Hernández: "What you need to do is release Alina Bárbara López Hernández immediately, a limit to so much ridiculousness wouldn’t hurt you, ridiculous people."
The detention of Lara Crofs coincides with the arrest of López Hernández this same Saturday in Matanzas, where the intellectual was attempting to carry out her monthly peaceful protest in the Park of Freedom, an action she takes every 18th of the month to demand an amnesty law for political prisoners.
Yamilka Lafita is an activist with a long history of documented repression by the regime.
In February 2025, agents arrested her in Havana while she was distributing food to homeless people, during which they confiscated more than 200 thermal packages and 20 liters of gasoline, goods valued at 70,000 Cuban pesos, equivalent to about 140 dollars.
On April 9, 2025, the regime prevented attendance at the farewell Mass for the child Damir Ortiz in Havana. Months later, on August 5, 2025, he reported surveillance by State Security outside his home during the 31st anniversary of the Maleconazo.
The pattern is consistent: prior surveillance, arbitrary detention without formal charges, and the use of plainclothes agents to harass activists in their own homes, a common practice of the Cuban State Security against peaceful opponents. "What a worthy job, coming to watch over the garden of my house," wrote Lara Crofs hours before being arrested.
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