MIAMI, United States. — Former political prisoner Miguel Angel Lopez Herreracoordinator of the United Anti-Totalitarian Forum (FANTU) in the province of Guantánamo, denounced that he has been unable to see his youngest son, despite having the permission of the authorities.
López Herrera declared to CubaNet that it has been the mother of the minor who has prevented him from seeing him, a right that corresponds to him every Tuesday and Thursday and Saturday and Sunday in alternate weeks, according to a court in the province.
“The mother told me that she no longer wanted me to go to her house to look for the child because I was a counterrevolutionary, that I was a bad influence on him and that it was affecting her to fulfill an internationalist mission,” said the opponent.
The FANTU coordinator in Guantánamo pointed out that “it is important that people in other parts of the world know how opponents of this regime are discriminated against. They not only deprive me of the right to work, but also the right to see my son. In this case it is not the regime directly, but a person who is being instrumented”.
According to López Herrera, the trial to determine his son’s visits took place on January 27 of this year. The judicial instance ruled in favor of the activist, who has faced problems seeing the minor since the minor was barely one year old.
The mother says that I cannot see him “because I am a counterrevolutionary and a bad influence. And I want to say that I am a good family man, I may not be the best, but I am a good family man. I have an older son who is 24 years old and just graduated as a computer engineer and a 21-year-old female who is studying medicine.”
“I have never been a watered-down person and if I have been imprisoned in this country it has been for defending the truth and democracy,” said the opponent.
