MIAMI, United States. – The political prisoner Brenda Díaz responded on Monday to the recent statements by the deputy Mariela Castro Espín, director of the National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX), who said last week that the 9/11 protester was “very well” in the men’s section prison for people with HIV Cuba-Panama.
In a recorded audio and posted on Twitter For Ana María García, Díaz’s mother, the young woman herself asks that her message be sent to Castro Espín.
In the recording, Díaz urges the director of CENESEX that when she returns to the Cuba-Panama prison, in Güines, Mayabeque, “make an unscheduled visit” and go “through the detachments to talk with the prison population.”
The young transgender woman also claims to be tired of “the fallacies that have gotten into her [Mariela Castro Espín] and all the personnel of this country on this prison [la cárcel Cuba-Panamá]”.
Likewise, Díaz denounces that the establishment is not subject to the control of the national penitentiary authorities, who do not see “everything wrong done” in that penitentiary center.
“[La comida] Here it is sancocho, there is no one who eats it,” he said. In addition, he denounced the lack of medical attention: “Right now I am flying with a fever, with a cold and with everything, and there is not even a duralgin to give me.”
Last Wednesday, during the press conference he gave at the inauguration of the 16th Cuban Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, Castro Espin assured that The young woman did not know that she had become “a media figure that they have invented against Cuba.”
According to the official, daughter of the dictator Raúl Castro, the complaints about Díaz’s situation are part of an “oversized story full of fantasies.”
“Her mother even expressed that she felt very calm that Brenda was still there,” added Castro Espín, for whom the information about the case of the young Cuban is “little gossip” and is part of a “media show by the press and corporate agencies.
“It is sad that the same lie continues to be reproduced to attack Cuba with this story,” he said.
Castro Espín assured that he had recently visited the Cuba-Panama prison and said that people from the LGBTIQ community deprived of liberty receive “very good food, better than what their families have.”
After Castro Espín’s statements were released, Ana María García denied the official information about her daughter’s condition in conversation with Radio Television Martí.
“All the things that Brenda has been through in prison have been real. Brenda has not been treated medically and there they do not give her any type of medication,” García said. “And the [antir]retrovirals that are now being given to him, because I also had to take him three months ago [antir]retrovirals. That is an HIV prison and they are obliged to give him all the medicines”, she added.
According to García, Castro Espín did visit the Cuba-Panama prison, but the entourage had no contact with his daughter. “That day Brenda was talking to me for 45 minutes, 45 minutes that Mariela Castro was inside the prison and that they hid her, that is, they took her up to that office to talk to me because they hid her,” said the woman.
“What they want is to cover all the things that are being done with my daughter and she is not going to silence me or any of the people who are fighting for the freedom of the prisoners, for the freedom of Cuba,” Garcia concluded.
Brenda Díaz was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the alleged crimes of “public disorder” and “sabotage” in the anti-government protests of July 11, 2021. Last April, in a second trial, the regime increased its security by seven more months. conviction for an alleged crime of “contempt”.
