Anamely Ramos

Anamely Ramos González is a Cuban art curator and activist. She was born on January 22. She is one of the most visible faces of the San Isidro Movement (MSI) to which she belongs.

Graduated from the University of Havana as an art historian, she worked for twelve years as a professor and researcher at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), from which she was expelled. Since January 10, 2021, she has been pursuing a doctorate in Anthropology at the Ibero-American University (IBERO) in Mexico. Anamely herself stated that the repressors who harass her warned her that there was no future for her in Cuba and asked her "for her own good" to leave the country so that she would no longer be a problematic case for them.

Anamely was among the MSI activists who barricaded themselves on November 16, 2020, at Damas 955, in Old Havana, for the release of the dissenting rapper Denis Solís and to demand freedom of expression as well as an end to censorship and repression against all who hold an ideology independent of the Cuban government. On November 25, 2020, she announced that she was joining the hunger strike being carried out by several of her colleagues.

Since then, all those involved with the San Isidro Movement have remained under house arrest, with police and patrols permanently stationed outside their homes.

In February 2021, Ramos was part of a delegation of artists, activists, and representatives of Cuban civil society who appeared at a virtual meeting of the European Parliament for freedom and the end of repression on the island. Also present were Yotuel Romero, Willy Chirino, jazz musician Arturo Sandoval, Gente de Zona, Maykel Osorbo, scientist Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, among others.

Anamelys is one of the activists who has raised her voice the most against the management of the Cuban government through her Facebook page. She has described the acts of repudiation against Cuban activists as "state crimes" and has criticized the political-economic elite clinging to power in Cuba, which she refers to as a "mafia without ideology that prevents the freedom and progress of the country and its citizens." Ramos advocated before the European Parliament for the legalization of independent projects and associations as a way to regenerate the social fabric that has been lost in Cuba, generate healthy work relationships, and create networks of solidarity without being left defenseless against state control.