Madrid/The former Lieutenant Colonel of the Interior Ministry Jorge Luis Vega García, known as VEGUITA, arrested on August 5 In the United States for the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE), after having been identified by some of its victims on the island as A cruel repressoralready has a deportation order to Cuba. The decision was signed by an immigration judge of Miami last Monday, although it gives an appeal period until September 24.
If you lose it, it will be returned to Havana, which can accept or reject deportation. In similar situations, remember Martí NewsUSA It usually opts for returns to Mexico or other countries, willing to receive former Cuban officials.
Vega García legally entered the US territory on January 20, 2024 by 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, and in that process its relationship with the criminal system of the island was not detected.
At the end of July, several former political prisoners, such as Benito Ortega Suárez, Pablo Pacheco Ávila, Blas Giraldo Reyes or Fidel Suárez Cruz, pointed him out as “one of the most feared repressors” of the regime, responsible for orchestrating physical and psychological torture against opponents in the prisons of Agüica and Gutleta, in Matanzas.
At the end of July, several former political prisoners pointed out as “one of the most feared repressors” of the regime
“Veguita is one of the many murderers that Cuba has,” Mario J. Pentón Fidel Suárez told the journalist, who said that, together with other officials, Vega gave him 19 beats in a month who left permanent sequelae. Pacheco, condemned during the 2003 black spring, remembered him as a man of “short peeled, Nazi style” whom you “saw the evil on the face.”
The deportation order occurs less than a month after the arrest, which reveals the will of the Government of Donald Trump to accelerate these types of cases. Cuban -American congressman Carlos Giménez formally requested his deportation in those days, 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.
The case of Vega 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 on the list of repressors of the Human Rights Foundation in Cuba, was also arrested and subsequently Deported to the island last May.
Another case is that of the former Cuban judge Melody González Pedrazaknown for her performance in the processes against protesters of July 11, 2021 and arrested upon arrival in the US despite having been accepted within the program of parole humanitarian. When rejected, the former official asked for political asylum, claiming pressures of the regime to issue certain sentences, but her request was dismissed, and received deportation order last May.
His arrival on the island was expected on the flight of returned by the US held on Thursday, but his name continues to appear In the records of the Richwood Immigrant Centerin Louisiana, where he remains detained by ICE.
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.
