MIAMI.-The Cuban activist Adelth Bonne Gamboacollaborator of CubaNetreported on his Facebook profile that the police have been watching his house since yesterday.
“Now I go out to throw out the garbage quietly and my neighbors tell me that since yesterday I have been under siege.”
Bonne explained that a patrol has been around his house every 30 minutes. “He parks, sounds the sirens and continues,” he explained. During the general blackout that affected the country last month, the activist was attacked with the same technique. “It’s to intimidate me so I don’t leave the house. I think they fear that I will travel to Viñales, to the Urquiola estate because I have commented on it on my networks,” Bonne told Cubanet.
Bonne Gamboa, 30 years old and known for his activism and his open criticism of the Cuban regime, is a communicator who transmits to the people the reality of the Island in crisis. In CubaNet leads the program Worming with Adelth, in which it addresses current issues and relevance to the population.
On several occasions, the State Security He has cut off his internet access to prevent his transmissions and has warned him, by telephone, not to leave his house.
Last October, he was summoned by telephone this Friday by an alleged State Security agent. However, the communicator and activist refused to appear before the supposed authority if he did not receive an official summons.
According to what he told this medium, he assured his interlocutor that, to summon him, he had to give him an official document for that purpose. In the call, the alleged agent referred to “the new regulations”, that is, to the Social Communication Law that recently came into force and by which the Island’s regime unleashed a wave of repression against journalists and communicators.
In September, Bonne Gamboa was confronted and threatened in his own home by two women who, according to his statements, were acting on behalf of the Cuban Government. Both said they disagreed with the young man’s journalistic work and activism, both in CubaNetlike on their social networks.
In a recorded video The communicator himself shows the women who tried to intimidate him.
Bonne Gamboa denounced the women as “snitches” of the Government and underlined the absurdity of the situation, indicating that, if State Security had something against them, they should send the Police directly instead of delegating responsibility to two women apparently civilians.