A few hours before the Civic March for Change, called for this Monday in Cuba by the Archipelago group, State Security intensifies its siege against activists, independent journalists and ordinary citizens. Daniela Rojo, mother of two small children, moderator of the platform in networks from Guanabacoa, Havana, and who has already been detained for almost a month For participating in the protests of July 11, his whereabouts are unknown.
As reported by Archipelago in its networks, “after several people appeared at the Guanabacoa police station asking for Daniela, we can affirm that she is officially disappeared.” Right there, the group asserts: “We hold the Cuban regime responsible for the life of Daniela Rojo.”
In Cienfuegos, the platform also denounced the “kidnapping” by the Interior Ministry of Carlos Ernesto Díaz González, when “he was going to buy cigarettes in his neighborhood.”
Three agents, Archipiélago denounces, later appeared at the activist’s house, who runs a private restaurant, and asked his wife, Adianes Delgado Hernández, to “appear at the Technical Investigations Department (popularly known as” Everybody Sing “) located in Pueblo Grifo, to take toothpaste, toothbrush, among other belongings, to her husband.”
“You [los que disienten] They are not the majority “, Omar Mena assures that they told him during his detention,” but the moment you are the majority, we will take care of killing you “
By way of explanation, the platform continues, the agents told Delgado that the reason for the arrest was “that Carlos had posted signs at the Hospital.” She told them that this was a false accusation and they replied that “they were investigating it.” Archipelago denounces that they have 72 hours for this and that this prevents Díaz from participating in the November 15 demonstration, and demands “the cessation of these harassment actions” against citizens “who are only exercising their universally recognized right to demonstrate. and express yourself freely. “
The opposition Guillermo was also detained – in his case, for the second time in the month. Coconut Fariñas, 2010 European Parliament Sakharov Prize winner, in Santa Clara, and is awaiting prosecution.
Alicia Hernández, Fariñas’s mother, told Efe by phone that he was detained on Friday and this Saturday he was admitted to the Arnaldo Milián provincial hospital, where they would carry out several medical checks and where “later” a prosecutor would come to process him.
“We do not know what the cause is, only that they will process it,” he said, commenting that the general coordinator of the United Antitotalitarian Front (Fantu) has undergone medical treatment for several days for a bacterium that is lodged in his kidney.
From Las Tunas, the writers Ana Rosa Díaz Naranjo and Rafael Vilches reported in networks that this Saturday they were besieging his house, giving blows from the early hours. “All day they have been harassing us so that Ana would leave the house and be able to kidnap her,” Vilches tells the camera, who claims to have realized that at that moment they were breaking down a wall of the house, connected to the house of a neighbor , to enter and be able to stop them.
“I don’t know if what we all hope will happen on November 15, but if not on November 15, it will be 16; if not, it will be 17; if not, it will be in December; if not, it will be in January; but at some point it’s going to have to happen “
The rebellious rapper Omar Mena The Analyst, who had been arrested on Friday in Santa Clara, recounted in a live broadcast how he was threatened by the political police. “You [los que disienten] They are not the majority, “he assures that they told him during his arrest,” but the moment you are the majority, and we will take care of killing them. “How ?, he continues,” cutting their throats, shooting them, with those same words “.
For her part, Luz Escobar, editor of 14ymedio, quoted on friday by the Ministry of the Interior in the Office for Minors in Havana, reported the presence this Saturday of a State Security agent in the basement of his building to prevent him from going out on the street.
While the threats from the political police increased in tone, in the streets of Havana the authorities increased the volume of the “festivities”, to which the the Buena Fe group with a concert.
But in the face of pressure from the ruling party, the signs of support for the Civic March are also multiplying. From Miami, the singer Leoni Torres sent, in the middle of a performance, a message of encouragement to the Archipelago platform, referring to its members, especially Yunior García Aguilera, as “the new heroes of Cuba.” “I don’t know if what we all hope will happen on November 15, but if not on November 15, it will be 16; if not, it will be 17; if not, it will be in December; if not, it will be in January; but at some point it’s going to have to happen, “Torres said into the microphone amidst the applause from the audience and the shouts of” freedom. “
A unique and exciting tribute is that of the musician Roberto Carcassés, who was recorded this Saturday through the streets of Havana, making the route that Yunior García Aguilera had announced that he would continue “alone” this Sunday and humming a song titled There is no one who can stop me. “Without fear of saying what you think, the street belongs to all Cubans, stop being silly and give me your hand, go for a walk, this is your place, this is your land and your country, no one can tell you how you have to live” says the lyrics of the song at the beginning, signed by jazz pianist and singer Etian Brebaje Man. “It’s good already crying and suffering, my city lights up right away,” the lyrics continue at another time. “Hey, the abuse is over, because Cubans are already on the streets.”
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