Madrid/Cuban opponent Martha Beatriz Roque, discharged last Friday after remaining almost two weeks admitted in serious condition in Havana hospitals, arrived on Miami Tuesday, Florida. “I have left almost everything behind, because I have had to come quickly, because I am sick,” declared a reporter of Martí News that awaited her at the American airport.
“Any message for his people in Cuba?” Asked the journalist, to which she replied: “Yes, to wait for the freedom that will come soon.”
In the terminal, Roque was waiting for his sister, Elena, who was not seeing for ten years, as well as other relatives and members of the exile community, such as Santiago Álvarez, to take her directly to a hospital, which they did not reveal.
The information was also advanced by the opponent Angel Moyahusband of the leader of the ladies of Blanco, Berta Soler, who were close to Roque while he was hospitalized and took care of the medical parts daily.
After his discharge, Moya wrote on his social networks, the United States government “granted him the visa to continue his medical treatment in the northern country.” Roque, the activist continues, “continues with a state of health health.”
The United States Government “gave him the visa to continue his medical treatment in the northern country”
On February 3, the business manager of the United States Embassy in Cuba, Mike Hammerhe visited Roque at the Manuel Fajardo hospital in Havana, where he was admitted since the previous Saturday. The head of the American mission transmitted to the activist, then, a message from the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who wished him a prompt recovery and He trusted to see her soon.
After the visit of the diplomat, the opponent was transferred to the Hermanos Ameijeiras hospital, something that Berta Soler described as “eventual.”
Roque, spokesman for the Cuban Center for Human Rights, had reached the intensive therapy of Manuel Fajardo in critical condition, with very low blood pressure, dehydration and hyperglycemia, from the Miguel Enriquez hospital, known as the beneficial. As Soler and Moya had reported, Roque had been transferred to that center in the face of worsening his health status, the product of the diabetes he suffers, and that included a kidneys infection.
78 years old, the only woman who was part of the group of the 75 Cubans who suffered prison during the so -called Black Spring of 2003. Founder of the Cuban Institute of Independent Economists, in 1997 began the working group of the internal dissent. Of those years dates the document The homeland belongs to everyone –Wolving with Félix Bonne Carcassés, René Gómez Manzano and Vladimiro Roca– who pointed out the management errors of the Communist Party against the crisis of the special period, in the 90s.
It was precisely one of the faces of the year 2024 chosen by 14ymedio. Then, this newspaper celebrated the delivery of the courage woman, that the US government grants to those who “have demonstrated exceptional strength and leadership by defending peace, justice and human rights.” Roque, however, He could not go to receive the award in Washington for being regulatedthat is, subject to a prohibition of departure from the national territory.
Last November, the authorities informed her that she could go “through the office” if he wanted to take his passport, which indicated that the prohibition had been raised, but she decided not to go.
