Miami, United States. – The old Zoila Esther Chávez Pérez, mother of the Cuban political prison Cubanet Relatives of the 84 -year -old woman.
According to these sources, the cancer suffered by the old woman “is now affecting the kidney ducts, which are no longer working well.”
Zoila Esther Chávez Pérez lives alone since her son’s arrest, which occurred on November 8, 2024, after participating in A peaceful protest at the crossroads, province of Villa Clara. Accused of the alleged crime of “public disorder”, José Gabriel Barrenechea is in the prison La Ear (Santa Clara), waiting for trial. The Prosecutor’s Office requests between three and eight years of deprivation of liberty, despite the fact that in the videos of the demonstration its role as mediator and not as an instigator of violence is observed.
“Five months ago I live alone, abandoned,” said Zoila Esther during An interview with Cubanet This same month. “All I want is, before I die, even if it is a month with my son; what most anxious is to see him enter that door.”
The physical deterioration of women and the difficult conditions in which they live are evident: it is supported by the walls to walk, cooking with coal in the patio due to lack of gas, and suffers multiple chronic diseases, including circulatory problems and a surgery history in the bladder. “I can’t anymore. Why do they suffer like this? This heart can’t stand it anymore,” he lamented during his conversation with this medium.
The situation has shocked those who know the case, because Barrenechea, in addition to an independent journalist and writer, was the only caregiver of his mother. “While I was never missing the milk or egg because he knows that I suffer from bleeding and melobin lowers me,” said Zoila Esther.
Without resources or transport, the old woman has not been able to visit her son in prison and fears not to see him again.
In her testimony, the old woman called for public consciousness: “What has you done to have it locked me? What do I have, to him, in this Calvary, in this terror that I carry inside my heart? Please, join everyone and help me ask me for my son; take me, I go in a wheelchair where I have to go.”
