Madrid/The business manager of the United States Embassy in Cuba, Mike Hammer, visited Cuban opposition Martha Beatriz Roque on the Manuel Fajardo Hospital in Havana, where he was admitted since last Saturday. As revealed Cubanetthe head of the American mission transmitted to the activist a message from the Secretary of State, Marco Rubiowho wished him a prompt recovery and trusted to see her soon.
After the visit of the diplomat, it transcended the “transfer” of Roque to the Hermanos Ameijeiras hospital, which the leader of the ladies of Blanco, Berta Soler, who announced about it, described as “eventual”.
“The director of the Fajardo Hospital, Dr. Mirtha, informed us of the 2.30 PM, who decided to transfer Martha Beatriz Roque for the Nephrology service of the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital. This transfer will be made in the SIUM in the company of two people of all confidence” From the opponent, Soler detailed in his account Facebook.
Roque, spokesman for the Cuban Center for Human Rights, arrived at the intensive therapy of Manuel Fajardo in critical condition, with very low blood pressure, dehydration and hyperglycemia, from the Miguel Enriquez hospital, known as the beneficial. As Soler had reported last Wednesday, and her husband, Ángel Moya, Roque had been transferred to the beneficial to the worsening of her state of health, the product of the diabetes she suffers, and that included a kidneys infection.
Since then, activists have promptly reported their medical parts, specifying that together with Roque they were “people of their trust.”
The activists have reported promptly their medical parts, specifying that together with Roque they were “people of their trust”
In these days, the opponent has been improving, and this Monday went from “unstable critic” to “serious stable.” According to a Soler publication This TuesdayRoque is “conscious but disoriented in time and space.”
Roque was the only woman who was part of the Group of the 75 Cubans who suffered prison during the so -called Black Spring of 2003. Founder of the Cuban Institute of Independent Economists, in 1997 he began the working group of the internal dissent. Of those years dates the document The homeland belongs to everyone –Heyed next to Félix Bonne Carcassés, René Gómez Manzano and Vladimiro Roca– who pointed out the management errors of the Communist Party against the crisis of the special period, in the 90s.
It was precisely one of the faces of the year 2024 chosen by 14ymedio. Then, this newspaper celebrated the delivery of the courage woman, that the US government grants to those who “have demonstrated exceptional strength and leadership by defending peace, justice and human rights.” Roque, however, could not go to receive the prize in Washington for being regulated, that is, subject to a prohibition of departure from the national territory.
At that time, he said to 14ymedio A phrase that gives the measure of his work for democracy in the last 35 years, and its impact on the regime: “The hatred they have is terrible.”
