Cuban sports journalist Armando Campuzano, residing in Canada, reported this Tuesday that a two-year prison sentence against his daughter Wendolín Campuzano Almaguer was upheld. She will serve this sentence in the women's prison of El Guatao in Havana, as a direct reprisal from the Cuban regime for his denunciations from exile.
Campuzano published a denunciation video on Facebook minutes after receiving a brief call from his daughter confirming the sentence. "It was a false verdict for me; it was a rigged trial," said the journalist, who described the process as retaliation for his criticisms of the regime from Canada and for the publication of his book Cuba, el Titanic del Caribe, in which he denounces crimes of Castroism over more than 60 years.
The trial against Wendy was held on April 15, 2026, but the verdict was not delivered at the end of the hearing.
It was postponed for 15 days, then the entire month of May was allowed to pass, and finally it was confirmed this Tuesday, June 2nd.
The Prosecutor's Office had initially requested six years in prison. The formal charges are related to a commercial premises assigned by the government itself and an alleged assault on an internal security officer, charges that Campuzano describes as a pretext: "The housing issue and the assault on an internal security officer are pure nonsense, just an excuse to unleash all their anger and hatred against my daughter."
The harassment against Wendy began at least in April 2026, when she posted a video from her home in Havana denouncing the pressures she was facing. "I am being threatened and intimidated by two officers from the PNR and one from State Security. I find myself in the middle of a legal process where they are asking for six years in prison, and I have done nothing," she stated at the time.
An agent of State Security explicitly told him: "You are going to pay for your father's worm."
The authorities also threatened to send Wendy's three minor children to a boarding school far from their parents.
Campuzano recounted that before publishing his book, he consulted with his daughter, aware of the risks he faced by staying in Cuba. Wendy's response was emphatic: "Go for it, Dad, there's no fear here."
The last words he said to his father before hanging up the phone this Tuesday were: "I'm going to stand my ground."
The journalist expressed his concern for the three children left "without their mother" and for the fate that may await his daughter in prison, but he announced that he will continue with his denunciations.
"Wendy becomes one of more than 1,200 political prisoners or prisoners of conscience suffering in the dungeons of the dictatorship," noted Campuzano, who mentioned among them Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Maykel "Osorbo" Castillo, Félix Navarro, and his daughter Saylí Navarro.
The case falls within a documented pattern of the Cuban regime using family members who remain on the island as a tool of pressure against dissidents and journalists in exile. Prisoners Defenders reported a record of 1,260 political prisoners in Cuba in April 2026, with 23 new cases that month.
Campuzano, who worked for over 30 years at Cuban Television before exiling himself in Canada in 2017, concluded his video with a direct message to the oppressors: "You are going to pay for everything you are doing, and then some."
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