Havana/The former Lieutenant Colonel of the Ministry of Interior (Minint), Jorge Luis Vega García, known as VEGUITAwas arrested on Tuesday in the United States, as confirmed by the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE) to Martí News. The migrant was identified by several political prisoners as a repressor who hit and tortured the inmates.
Vega García He legally entered the country on January 20, 2024 through the Tampa International Airport, Florida, along with his wife and son, covered by the program of parole humanitarian. Subsequently, he was able to accept the Cuban adjustment law, despite his history as one of “the most feared repressors” of the Cuban prison system, a link that was not detected during his immigration process.
It is indicated by orchestrating physical and psychological torture against opponents
In Cuba, he directed the prisons of Agüica and Gaseta, in Matanzas, and is indicated by former political prisoners such as Benito Ortega Suárez, Pablo Pacheco Ávila, Blas Giraldo Reyes and Fidel Suárez Cruz de Orchestra Repliations against opponents imprisoned during the black spring of 2003.
“Veguita is one of the many murderers that Cuba has,” Mario J. Pentón Fidel Suárez told journalist, who says that, along with other officials, Vega gave him 19 beats in a month who left permanent sequelae. Pacheco, condemned during the black spring of 2003, remembers him as a man of “short peeled, Nazi style” who “you saw the evil on his face.”
Cuban American congressman Carlos Giménez formally requested his deportation
The arrest occurs after the Cuban American congressman Carlos Giménez formally requested his deportation in a letter addressed to the Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, in which he included documentary evidence of his involvement in the repressive apparatus. The concordance in the signatures of several documents signed by Vega in Cuba in 2010 and in the United States in 2024 confirmed their identity.
Vega denied a Martí News having belonged to the Cuban prison system and cut a call in which it was confronted. “If you defended communism so much, what are you doing here, in the country that you criticized so much?” Pacheco questioned.
So far, ICE has not reported the specific charges against Vega García
The case of Vega García joins other recent ones, such as Jorge Javier Rodríguez Cabrera also linked to the Cuban regime and arrested by ICE in recent months. Daniel Morejón García, who appears in the list of repressors of the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FDHC), was also arrested and subsequently Deported to the island last May. More than one hundred names They appear on a list delivered by Giménez to the Department of Internal Security with alleged repressors residing in the US.
So far, ICE has not reported the specific charges against Vega García. Organizations of exile and victims demand formal investigation and judgment that responsible for the crimes reported.
