The Bolivian government ruled this Wednesday on the expulsion of the Cuban activist Magdiel Jorge Castro, made public on monday.
The Minister of Government (Interior), Eduardo del Castillo, told the media, including the Spanish agency EFE, that “any foreign citizen who settles in national territory has to comply with current legal regulations” and that if the Directorate General of Migration has determined that the Cuban citizen has “broken the rules” so he must “withdraw from the country.”
“Any citizen who interrupts our regulations, who commits misdemeanors, contraventions or even crimes will have to comply with the corresponding sanction,” said Del Castillo.
Magdiel Jorge Castro he said in his networks this Wednesday that he filed a “revocation appeal” against the resolution, which forces him to leave Bolivia, where he resides, in the next 15 business days. “I will wait for the response in the terms that Bolivian law determines,” he tweeted.
On Monday, the activist denounced his case, and told this newspaper that when he arrived at Immigration, where he was summoned, “there was a whole folder with my tweets, as State Security tends to do in Cuba.” He asked which of his publications violated the law but “they couldn’t tell me.”
“Any citizen who interrupts our regulations, who commits faults, contravention or even crimes will have to comply with the corresponding sanction”
In the migratory resolution, shown to this newspaper, it is indicated that Castro “infringed Bolivian regulations, altering public order through social networks.” For this reason, the text continues, on December 16, 2022 “the temporary mandatory departure resolution is granted.”
By “acts that disturb public order,” says the document, it is understood “participation and/or incitement to: riots, confrontation between citizens and acts against morality and/or dignity.”
This Tuesday, Castro gave an interview to the influencers Cuban Alex Otaolawhere he described the Bolivian government’s decision as “political persecution” against him, while warning of the dangerous precedent it sets for other Cubans seeking asylum in third countries.
Bolivia and Cuba got closer again, after the suspension of diplomatic relations with Cuba by the then interim president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, today in jailwith the Government of Luis Arce.
The Bolivian president was received last week by his Cuban counterpart, Miguel Díaz-Canel, in Havana, where he also attended the extraordinary session of the National Assembly in commemoration of the eighteenth anniversary of the creation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (Alba-TCP).
For Castro, as stated in his conversation with Otaola, this visit is directly related to his expulsion from Bolivia.
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