Exprophesitors and alumni of the University of Camagüey point to Dania Santi Morlanes as the executing authority of disciplinary measures against professors of the institution.
Miami, United States. – Dania María Santi Morlanes, (former) militant of the Communist Party and former Decan of the Faculty of Languages and Communication of the University of Camagüey “Ignacio Agramonte”, obtained the permanent residence in the United States for family claim – his daughter is a US citizen -, according to a verification of Martí News.
In a brief call with that medium, Santi Morlanes denied having residence in the US Martí News They assured that he traveled to that country in February and returned to Cuba in September with a Green Card.
Following these facts, exprofesors and alumni of the University of Camagüey that responsible for sanctions and expulsions of critical voices at the Center for High Studies asked the US immigration authorities to evaluate their case.
Journalists José Raúl Gallego (exprofesor of the University of Camagüey) and José Luis Tan Estrada (ex -alumnus and former director of the same center) indicate it as an authority of disciplinary measures against critics within the institution.
Gallego assured a Martí News that Santi Morlanes had been “the visible executor, the firm that made the political order in punishment” to degrade it to a remunerative minor square. So Estrada said that on November 30, 2022 the then Dean read her expulsion from the University of Camagüey “with satisfaction”, claiming that their publications in networks constituted a “negative influence.” “Who gives the face and stamps his name on an unfair sanction is also responsible,” Gallego added.
At the time of expulsion of such a strada, Gallego denounced the case on Facebook And he wrote that in a free Cuba people like Santi Morlanes, who are executed superior orders, “they will have to go to court, with all the guarantees that a rule of law gives, to respond for these violations and the damage caused to so many young people whose only ‘crime’ was to think differently and dare to express it.”
The accusations include official documents shown to the environment. In one of them – a resolution signed by Santi Morlanes on January 16, 2018 as Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Communication – is imposed on José Raúl Gallego Ramos the measure of “temporary transfer to the main square or qualification square, or in different working conditions, for the term of 1 (one) year, with the right to reintegrate into its place”, with support in the Law No. 116/13 Labor CodeArticle 150, subsection a.
The resolution provides that the temporary square to occupy would be in the Department of Information and Libraryology, and reports that, if not complying, the affected could claim before the Base Labor Justice body of the University of Camaguey “Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz” within seven business days. The document appears signed by the DRC. Dania Santi Morlanes Morlanes and sealed by the Faculty.
According to Martí NewsExcolegas attribute to Santi Morlanes an adhesion “without fissures” to internal mechanisms of ideological control after the reunification of the “José Martí” pedagogical institute with the University of Camagüey. So Estrada added that, after his expulsion, he faced surveillance, discredit campaigns, Internet cuts and interrogations until leaving the country. Independent organizations have documented for years punishment patterns or relocation to dissident students and teachers.
According to A Facebook publication by Yoesdely Cruz Acostawho appears in that social network as a worker at the University of Camagüey, the former official served as Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Communication until the beginning of 2024, when she began to live a “new stage” of her life.
Santi Morlanes would have accessed the permanent residence under the IR-5 category (mother of American citizen). The Human Rights Foundation in Cuba told Martí News which included the name of the former Decana in lists of alleged repressors sent to members of the Congress and agencies for its administrative evaluation.
Experts consulted by the same medium indicated that, in general terms, a residence can be re -love if material omission or fraud is proven in the application, or if legal causes of inadmissibility arise; Each case requires due process and documentary support.
“This is not revenge, it is memory and responsibility,” said Gallego, who requested that these background not normalize when former officials request amparo in democracies. So Estrada said that “while he exiled teachers and students from the classrooms, today he enjoys the freedoms he denied.”
Martí News He tried to contact the daughter of Santi Morlanes to collect his version, but at the close of this report he had not obtained an answer.
