Brandon David Becerra Curbelo, a July 11 protester sentenced to 13 years in prison, spent three days in a punishment cell at the West Youth Prison in Havana, where he is being held. According denounced Cubalexthe reason was to sing fools fair, by Carlos Varela.
“Godfather, from this darkness in which they think I am, I have a lot of clarity,” wrote the 18-year-old – he was not yet when he was arrested – in a letter to his godfather, identified on networks as Miki Gomezin which he emphasizes: “Do you know why? Because I am free. FREE, FREE. My mind is free, I am free.”
Becerra Curbelo, originally from Santos Suárez, Havana, assures that “they are prisoners, of their forced and obligatory slavery” and concludes the letter wishing for a “free Cuba” and with the motto “homeland and life.”
Becerra Curbelo, originally from Santos Suárez, Havana, assures that “they are prisoners, of their forced and obligatory slavery” and concludes the letter wishing for a “free Cuba” and with the motto “homeland and life”
Becerra Curbelo is one of the 17 defendants in which the Cubalex organization confirmed that received higher sentences of those requested by the Prosecutor’s Office in the 11J trials, some of them disproportionate, such as the 30 years received by Dayron Martín Rodríguez, Wilmer Moreno Suárez and Miguel Páez Estiven.
The 128 sentences published last Wednesday add up, in years in prison, almost 2,000and show the fury of the regime with the protesters who were in two of the most symbolic points of the protests that day: in Toyo, where they managed to overturn a police patrol, and in La Güinera, where the police killed a Diubis Laurencio Tejeda.
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