SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- Independent platforms of Cuban civil society published this Wednesday a “Open Letter against Fraud and Repression in Venezuela”.
In response to another letter launched in a Venezuelan newspaper, in support of the dictatorship of Nicolas MaduroThe Cuban letter has more than 200 signatures from artists, intellectuals and activists residing on and off the island.
The signatories reject the fraud electoral crime committed in Venezuela and they call for an end to “the repression and persecution of opponents and the entire Venezuelan population.”
They also denounce the actions of officials of the Castro regime, “very far removed from Cuban civil society or from any sphere independent of the State or the political propaganda apparatus of the island,” who have supported Maduro’s actions.
The letter is driven by Tense Wings, Inverted TreeRoots of Hope Association, Citizens Committee for Racial Integration, Dfrente, IncubatorChristian Democratic Women of Cuba, Christian Democratic Party of Cuba, Archipelago, Prisoners Defenders and Cuban Women’s Network.
“Part of the shameful objective of this support for the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, his electoral fraud and the despicable repression unleashed in recent days, sells the false idea that the Latin American intellectual community and especially that of the island validates non-democratic forms of power and their, unfortunately, disastrous consequences: deaths, persecution and political prisoners, exiles, closure of all types of freedoms, banishments,” the statement says.
The text warns that there are even more dangerous facts: “placing in public opinion the idea that dictatorships such as those of Maduro in Venezuela, Díaz-Canel in Cuba or Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, can destroy a country and condemn their respective people to misery without ever suffering reprisals or being held accountable for their actions.”
Cubans pro Maduro
The statement to which independent artists and intellectuals reacted was published in Venezuela’s official newspaper CCS City.
The text was signed by political leaders, officials and international personalities, who described the protests against the election results in the South American country as a “destabilizing operation by Imperialism.”
Among the Cuban signatories of the pro-Maduro letter are former Culture Minister Abel Prieto; spy Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez, president of the National Union of Architects and Construction Engineers of Cuba (UNAICC); Alexis Triana, president of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) and Fernando González Llort, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).
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