The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FHRC, for its acronym in English) attacked the Southwest company on Monday for canceling the activist’s reservation Omara Ruiz-Urquiolato which the Cuban regime denied the return to the Island, scheduled for last Saturday.
The airline, the Miami-based NGO denounces, “canceled her reservation on the instructions of the authorities of the Ministry of the Interior in Havana and did not notify the passenger of that fact until she showed up at the Fort Lauderdale airport to board the plane. of that company.”
Likewise, the FHRC recalls that this is the second case, after the art historian and activist Anamely Ramos, “in which citizens residing in Cuba are denied entry into the country, their documents are in order, there is no cause or order of pending arrest on the Island, were visiting for reasons and personal invitations and their voluntary return to their homeland is blocked in clear violation of Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of which Cuba is a signatory”.
“If Havana and those companies want to continue their business, they must find a way to operate within normal international standards”
Omara Ruiz Urquiola, who was a History of Design and Cuban Culture professor at the Higher Institute of Design (ISDI) and a member of the San Isidro Movement, led by the now imprisoned Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maykel Castillo osorb“She has suffered from cancer for years,” said the Foundation, which invited her to the United States “to have a checkup and evaluate her general condition and prognosis because her health was deteriorating more and more.”
The organization is forceful when it comes to pointing out to Southwest: “It is time for US air transport companies to take note that they are incurring unacceptable complicity with the Cuban dictatorship by assuming responsibility for executing violations of the Universal Declaration on US territory.” . And he urges: “If Havana and those companies want to continue their business, they must find a way to operate within normal international norms; and these new situations cannot be considered ‘normal’.”
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