The former Cuban deputy to the National Assembly of People’s Power, Luis Ángel Adán Roble, emigrated to the United States, as confirmed by the young man himself on his social networks. “Goal accomplished in 72 hours”, he wrote this Wednesday in Facebook along with various symbols that suggest he flew from Cuba to Mexico and crossed the US border.
In her message, she thanked several people, including her mother, her boyfriend “and everyone who helped me in some way, encouraged me and gave their blessing to such an important decision.” She also said that she was “happy not only to have arrived, but also for so many signs of affection. Now, to get ahead.”
Roble, who was the first openly gay Cuban deputy and activist for LGBTI+ rights, had abandoned his profession as a doctor in early 2022 after alleging that the job did not provide him with “a decent salary.”
A year earlier he revealed that the State Security tried to recruit him and that in addition “he had been regulated” by the Ministry of the Interior for considering him a “person of public interest” for which reason he could not travel outside the country.
In November 2019, Roble published on his Facebook profile: “In an Extraordinary Meeting of the Municipal Assembly of Centro Habana, Havana, I was released from the position of Municipal Delegate and, in turn, Deputy of the National Assembly.”
Roble, who was the first openly gay Cuban deputy and activist for LGBTI+ rights, had abandoned his profession as a doctor at the beginning of 2022
The text was published a few weeks after the deputy denounced that he was unable to travel to an international conference in Colombia because the National Center for Sex Education (Cenesex), led by Mariela Castro Espín, denied him its support.
“It’s a little more of the same, delayed procedures, rally or I just don’t have the go-ahead,” he wrote then in a post in which he included several photos with the daughter of Raúl Castro.
The International Association of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Trans and Intersex for Latin America and the Caribbean (Ilgalac) was then celebrating its eighth conference in Colombia and Roble waited for the authorization of the dean of his faculty but he also needed a letter issued by Cenesex, Ilgalak member.
“When speaking with the Deputy Director of this Institution [Cenesex] I received the answer that they cannot accredit me as an activist to any community social network (although on my previous trip to Colombia in May, they did issue a letter),” lamented Roble.
The friction with Cenesex began when Roble assured that the May 2019 LGBTI march had not been organized from outside the Island, as Castro claimed. “It is a mistake to politicize it and say that it was orchestrated from abroad, nothing could be further from the truth, since it is young workers, students, revolutionaries, many of them acquaintances and friends, who made the call,” he stressed.
Shortly after, he amended the page and ventured that some activists participating in the march received “payments to carry out this type of event.”
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