MIAMI, United States. – The island’s regime prohibited a group of Cuban activists from leaving the country who, on March 8, International Women’s Day, read the names of the victims of femicide in the country at the foot of the statue of the doctor Enrique Faber, in Havana.
“I resigned myself to the fact that I will not leave this country for a long time,” posted on Facebook transgender activist Mel Herrera. “State Security let me know through a third person that all of us who read the names of the women murdered in Cuba for gender reasons and who put flowers on the statue of Enrique (ta) Faber on March 8 are regulated,” she detailed.
The young activist assured that, “luckily”, her plans to leave Cuba had never been solid. “In the very act of preventing certain people from leaving the country, the idea is implicit that leaving would be a relief and staying would be a punishment. Ball to her own court. Deal with your self-hatred and self-perception of what the system they work for is, ”she considered.
For her part, journalist and feminist activist Marta María Ramírez assured that “regulate” is “a euphemism for Cuban totalitarianism to name the violation of a #HumanRight, that of mobility.”
“When this happens against women,” he explained, “it is a crime to which is added the sexist violence of a #FeminicideState. When it happens to young feminist women, to a trans woman, for reading their demands in front of a statue, putting sunflowers on it and naming out loud, in a direct one, the names of the underreporting of #Feminicides in Cuba, the sexist crime is more evident.” he assured.
“They are coming for the feminists, I wrote months ago. And there they are harassed and their most basic rights violated,” lamented Ramírez. “If they touched them, I told them, cowardly macho, I am going to gather all of us to return. I’m going to take a while because I don’t summon anyone and I don’t have money. But I’m going to make it. And that day we are going to meet again, abusers, ”she warned.
Although the name of all the “regulated” activists has not been revealed, Ramírez mentioned Mel Herrera herself, Laura Vargas and Jéssica Sabina.
The category of “regulated” is used arbitrarily by the Cuban regime to impede the freedom of movement of citizens. In addition to medical specialists and other professionals, the dictatorship prevents activists and journalists from leaving in retaliation for their criticism and work.
According to the Patmos Institute, the list of those regulated for political reasons exceeds 250 activists and journalists.
So far this year, let it be known, was “regulated” the Matanzas activist Neuris Rodríguez Suárez who, on February 12, hoped to travel to Mexico to participate in a training course.
