Madrid Spain.- Cuban independent journalist Cynthia de la Cantera Toranzo resigned from continuing to practice her profession due to constant threats from the Cuban regime.
According to what the reporter denounced this Sunday, the island’s authorities threatened her that if she did not collaborate with State Security, she would be subjected to criminal proceedings.
Via Facebook the independent media reporter YuccaByte She explained that after publicly denouncing the harassment of her and her husband over the past two years, she has been summoned for two more interrogations.
In these interrogations, they demanded guarantees of her resignation from journalism, to which she replied that she has no guarantees to offer “in a government system where her profession is not legally recognized.”
“It was a decision that I had to make in a matter of a few minutes and, I repeat, under threat,” says the journalist.
“I’m just saying, and I trust, `the night will not last forever,'” he concluded, citing the opponent assassinated by the Oswaldo Payá regime.
Last May, De la Cantera offered testimony to CubaNet and to other independent media, where he denounced that since 2020 he had been the victim of systematic harassment by various elements of the political police.
Graduated from the University of Havana and nominated for the Gabo 2020 award, the reporter recently asked the international community not to abandon the dozens of persecuted and imprisoned journalists and activists in Cuba.
In recent years, various human rights organizations have considered Cuba the worst country in Latin America in terms of press freedom, and one of the worst in the world, along with North Korea.
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