MIAMI, United States. – Cuban journalist José Raúl Gallego denounced this Wednesday the private business of a State Security agent responsible for the expulsion of several students and professors from the “Marta Abreu” Central University of Las Villas.
On Facebook, Gallegó alluded to the publication of the official spokesman Lázaro Manuel Alonso, who had recently promoted “a small private business” from Camajuaní that produces shoes with “prices far from the madness of the market.”
“As can be read in one of the comments, the person behind this ‘small business,'” Gallego pointed out, “is nothing more and nothing less than Yoandy Riverón, ‘Cristian’ officer of the State Security in Villa Clara, now turned ‘businessman. ‘ after for years he was one of those responsible for the harassment, harassment and expulsion of students and professors from the Central University of Las Villas, as were the cases of Carla Perez Gonzalez (2017), Dalila Rodríguez (2016-2017) and Javier Larrea (2018-2020)”.
The Cuban journalist also points out that in one of the comments In response to Lázaro Manuel Alonso’s publication, official Cristian “flags off the high volumes of production that his business has, something extremely difficult in a country where stable access to raw materials is something that afflicts most of the business, more so in an area such as the footwear industry, which needs imported resources”.
“Also, the henchman-entrepreneur announces expansion of his business in the purest capitalist style, with the opening of three more stores in different municipalities of the province. In a single Facebook post we have evidenced the chain of complicity between the regime-military-entrepreneurs showcase-official press”, assured Gallego.
The journalist and researcher also recalled that “in Cuba it is common to see both soldiers and State Security henchmen re-converted into business and land owners once their active service is over, always enjoying the privileges that others do not have. entrepreneurs and that allow them to compete with them in extremely advantageous conditions”.
“This is the ’emerging private class’ that the regime favors, a group formed in its image and likeness, loyal, and that it uses to show an image of ‘changes’ that do not exist. The same speech they throw at those who believe that the ‘economic empowerment’ of a supposed private sector (totally controlled by them) will bring political empowerment,” Gallego wrote.
For him, “it is important to point out and uncover this type of event, because perhaps tomorrow, a business of a State Security henchman (…) could be among those who benefit from Biden’s measures for the Cuban ‘private’ sector, while the true entrepreneur continues to work without access to the most basic resources and fearful that if one day he raises his voice, he may be judged for ‘reception’, ‘hoarding’, ‘illicit enrichment’ or any other figure created to arbitrarily judge others. whoever becomes a hindrance to the regime.”
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