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Amílcar Andrés Bravo, a Cuban doctor with two specialties and a master's degree, publicly reported this Saturday on Facebook that State Security agents visited him without notice on March 10 at his workplace, threatened to imprison his children, members of the collective Fuera de la Caja Cuba and, after pressuring him until he resigned, they regulated him.
The two officers arrived at the Cuban Sports Research Center (CIDC), where Amilcar had been working without any caregiving responsibilities for over three years, and demanded that he stop his children Abel and Bety from continuing to post videos.
"They started by threatening to imprison my children if they continued with the videos, and that I had to stop them from doing so," the doctor recounted, categorically rejecting the demand.
"I couldn't prevent them from continuing to do so because I think exactly like they do, I support everything they do, and I am proud of them," he stated.
During the meeting, the agents also showed him a photo of his children alongside Ana Sofía Benítez Silvente (Anna Bensi), her mother Caridad Silvente, David Espinosa, Iván Daniel, and the journalist Camila Acosta, trying to present them as "bad influences" and "counter-revolutionaries."
In the face of repeated threats of jail, Amilcar stood his ground. "If they did it, I was not going to allow it, and they would have to go over me first," he asserted.
After the visit, the doctor informed the director of the CIDC and offered his voluntary resignation to avoid causing any issues. A week later, the director communicated to him that he was receiving pressures from the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education, and Recreation (Inder).
Amílcar submitted his resignation and, upon verifying his identity card, confirmed that he had also been regulated, just as the agents had warned him.
The salary he lost was 6,000 Cuban pesos, equivalent to about 11 dollars a month. "That is the salary of a doctor with two specialties and a master's degree, enough to cover a market for four to five days; that's what they took from me," he wrote.
What angered the doctor the most was how State Security is using his case. "These events are used in interviews with young people as intimidation, as something exemplary, telling them that they kicked the doctor out of work and regulated him. An attitude that I find extremely low [...] but above all, it is an ACT OF COWARDICE," he emphasized.
Amílcar's complaint adds to a series of documented reprisals against Fuera de la Caja Cuba since the beginning of 2026, which include the disabling of phones by the telecommunications monopoly in Cuba (Etecsa), hacking of WhatsApp accounts, and summons of family members before the National Revolutionary Police (PNR).
On April 26, member Karel Daniel Hernández Bosques reported that agents threatened the group with imprisonment, telling them that "it is illegal here not to be a communist," and just one day earlier State Security summoned his mother to the PNR of Cerro with barely an hour's notice.
Anna Bensi and her mother Caridad Silvente have been under house arrest since March 25, facing charges that carry penalties of two to five years.
Amnesty International documented these cases and demanded that the Cuban authorities cease the harassment.
At the end of his statement, Amílcar, raised by two parents who were officials of the Minint, and who changed his mind after completing four international medical missions, firmly summarized his stance: "My resistance is not creative; it is Stoic."
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