SLP, Mexico.- The journalist from CubaNet Camila Acosta This Monday, December 2, after four years, she found a State Security repressor who harassed her in 2020 and recounted the events that the agent carried out against her and other activists who denounce human rights violations in the Island.
“Four years without seeing him, but a face like that is difficult to forget. Today I found him again in a place in Havana; At first I didn’t recognize him, then I didn’t have doubts that it was him,” the independent journalist wrote on her social networks and stated that when she recognized the man, he tried to take her cell phone away to prevent her from filming his face.
The repressor, identified as Alejandro, led almost all of the repressive acts against Acosta in 2020. From home evictions, threats, accusations of false crimes, interrogations and even arbitrary arrests, the man was the protagonist.
Not only was she a victim of the repressor, but also Iliana Hernández, Nancy Alfaya, Marthadela Tamayo, María Matienzo and other journalists and human rights activists in Cuba.
As Acosta recalled, since the end of 2020 he had not heard from the agent, although Matienzo saw him months later, “on a street in Havana and driving an INDER (National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation) car.” “We assumed then that they had changed departments,” he suspected.
“Alejandro is one of those repressors who enjoys intimidating others, enjoys the power that instilling fear gives them, that is why, when Cuba changes – because it undoubtedly will one day – he will not be able to hide behind the fact that he was only following orders,” he stated.
In her testimony of one of the interrogations to which the man subjected her, she explained that he threatened her to stop her work as a journalist, because her grandparents would “pay the consequences” and mentioned the diseases that the elderly suffered from.
“We know that they are very sick, at any moment they could end up in a hospital and what happens to them will be your fault,” he told him.
The text, accompanied by a video showing the man, appeals to the visibility of these complaints so that faces like those of the repressors remain imprinted in the minds of Cubans, waiting for justice to be done one day.
“It is good that these hitmen understand that their impunity They will run out, and that not even by hiding under a rock will they be able to evade justice,” he argued.
For her work in the search for freedom and criticism of the Government for the situation of the Cuban people, Camila Acosta has been subjected to constant harassment and harassment.
She has remained under police surround for consecutive days, has been interrogated and detained on numerous occasions. This, however, has not made her retreat.
“If you thought that this would stop my work, you were wrong, I will continue doing journalism in Cuba,” he responded last year after almost six hours of disappearance forced.
