MIAMI, United States. – Yuneika González, grandmother of Elizabeth Meizoso, the two-year-old baby who died in the sinking of a migrant boat perpetrated by Cuban border guards near Bahía Honda, told Radio Television Martí that State Security had asked for his silence.
“They called me not to speak, not to say anything, not to get involved in that, that they gave us their support, I don’t know what… It was a DTI agent [Departamento Técnico de Investigaciones del Ministerio del Interior] that he called me so that I would not speak, that I would not get into the mess of social networks, “González explained.
The woman also assured that those who asked her to keep quiet promised her family help.
Last monday, Dilaidys Ramos Crespo, a pregnant survivor of the tragic crime, told the channel AméricaTeVé that after boarding the boat bound for the United States, the island’s border guards proceeded to neutralize the boat’s engines, before ramming it.
“They attacked us and neutralized the engines,” Ramos Crespo told. “Immediately they attacked us from the side and told us that they were going to split us in the middle and so on. mimitic it was. They went upstairs with everything, to kill us. They had no compassion for us.”
After the impact and the fall into the water, the migrants began to scream for the pregnant woman and the two-year-old baby who finally drowned. “They [los guardafronteras] They didn’t do anything, they yelled at us asking who had sent us to ride, why hadn’t we thought about things before doing them. At no time was there any help from them, because they were not interested in anything, “revealed Ramos Crespo.
“Between ourselves we had to help each other to get on the boat [de los guardafronteras]but not because they gave us any help, as if we were animals, “he added.
Héctor Eduardo Meizoso, another of the migrants and husband of Ramos Crespo, indicated that the Cuban military “had no scruples.”
“That was the saddest thing in life that those people could have done. There was no need to have done that. We were standing at the post and they split our boat in the middle. (…) We, the relatives, were rescuing people and we began to upload them little by little because they didn’t even help us, ”he said.
Last Monday, the testimony of Diana Meizoso, another of the survivors of the sinking and mother of the deceased two-year-old baby, also emerged. The Cuban assured that the destroyed boat had been attacked by the island’s border guards and denied that it had been an accident, as informed the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) last Saturday.
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