The Cuban mother Gisselle Ordóñez Milián, known on social media as Zea Gisselle, reported this Wednesday on Facebook that she has received an official Summons from the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) requiring her to appear this Thursday, July 16, at 10:00 am before the Head of the PNR Cocosolo Zamora Sector Group, at the 6th Unit of the National Revolutionary Police in Marianao.
The reason stated in the official document is "Interview," a term that Gisselle herself bluntly dismantled: "They say 'Interview,' the euphemism for not saying 'Interrogation.' Anyway, we'll be there tomorrow."
The notice, issued in the name of a resident of the Zamora neighborhood in the municipality of Marianao, Havana, warns that anyone who fails to appear without a valid reason will be fined up to one hundred units, and upon a second summons, may be taken by force and prosecuted according to article 72.1 of the Penal Procedure Law.
Organizations like Cubalex have documented that the use of "interview" as a reason for summoning is a systematic repressive mechanism: although this term is not specified as a mandatory cause for appearance in Cuban legislation, the legal consequences of failing to comply turn it into a covert coercive interrogation disguised as an administrative procedure.
Gisselle did not overlook a coincidence that she described as "hilarious": the same day she received the document, her neighborhood woke up with electricity, water, mobile coverage, and data connection all at the same time, something she said had not happened in over a month. "Today my neighborhood woke up with electricity, water, mobile coverage, and data connection all at once... hilarious, by the way, because it has been more than a month since we've had any of these, let alone two of them together in the same timeframe," she wrote.
The citation comes after weeks of extreme crisis in Zamora. Since July 9, the neighborhood has been in continuous blackout, without water, without fuel for cooking, and without mobile communications. In a post from that day, Gisselle described the situation: “No water for 4 days, no electricity for more than 24 hours, no fuel for cooking. And to top it off, we are cut off and isolated: no mobile coverage, no data connection.”
It is not the first time that the authorities have resorted to this mechanism against voices from the neighborhood. In June, Gisselle reported the detention of her neighbor Yansis Valladares, who was arrested for asking for food for her son and was also summoned through a "interview" notice to the same 6th PNR Unit of Marianao. In March, following protests with bonfires and pot-banging in Zamora, several mothers from the neighborhood received similar summonses.
The pressure on Gisselle is part of a broader pattern of repression. According to data from the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights collected by Infobae, the regime accumulated 1,949 repressive actions in the first half of 2026, including 257 arbitrary detentions, in a context of intensified repression surrounding the fifth anniversary of 11J.
Gisselle has been publicly documenting the crisis in Zamora and the state's repressive response for months. In May, she described her neighborhood as a war zone and in June issued a warning that summarizes her stance: "Negotiate and make agreements, as we are running late."
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