The Holguin doctor Manuel Warwho left Cuba on February 19 for the United States, has requested asylum in this country together with his wife, also a doctor Maylén Susel Álvarez.
As reported by himself in statements to Marti News, The couple left for Nicaragua, with stops in Panama and El Salvador, and entered the United States from Mexico through the Arizona border control, a month later. On the trip, he says, they learned that they will be parents for the first time in the coming months.
Guerra also confesses that State Security, which had him subjected to an “investigation process” for the crime of “disrespect” and made him go every week “to sign” at the National Revolutionary Police unit, was the one who He proposed exile.
“Lieutenant Colonel Yiosvany, the second in command of the political police in Holguín, with the subtlety and coldness that characterizes an organized mafia thug, tells me that I could end up in prison and that he would better assess the possibility of leaving the country,” details the doctor Marti News, At the same time, he explains that it was his mother who asked him “in full tears” that she preferred him “far away rather than in prison”: “And making use of that respect that one feels towards the mother, I made the decision to leave.”
Currently, the marriage is in Lakeland, Florida, where Guerra’s father has lived for years
Currently, the marriage is in Lakeland, Florida, where Guerra’s father has lived for years.
In fact, as he told 14ymedio in a recent interview, the doctor had been waiting a long time for a family reunification immigration process. His status as a resident doctor condemned him to be regulated, so in 2019 he tried to leave the country illegally, he was intercepted and the anger of the authorities increased around him.
In that conversation, Guerra narrated that the main reason for leaving the island is that he felt “very alone” in the fight for change, which he joined when he saw people like “Yunior Morales, Saily González or Yunior himself García Aguilera” opposing the regime.
A member of the Archipelago platform, the doctor was expelled from his job at the Nicodemus Regalado Hospital in Holguín and arbitrarily arrested last October, and since then the political police have not stopped harassing him.
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