The congressman promised his “unwavering solidarity” to Ferrer, his family and “to the brave Cuban town.”
Miami, United States. -Cuban American congressman Mario Díaz-Balart expressed his public support for José Daniel Ferrer after knowing the Cuban opponent letter in which he agrees to leave Cuba to protect his family. In A message released in Xthe legislator described Ferrer as “hero.”
“After years of imprisonment, beating, physical and psychological torture and persecution by the murderous regime in Cuba, simply for demanding freedom, it is being forced into exile,” said Díaz-Balart.
He also indicated that Ferrer “deserves a welcome worthy of a hero” and that “he will receive it.” “We will continue to provide our unwavering solidarity to him, his family and the brave Cuban town,” he ended.
The politician’s statement comes after, this Friday, Ferrer relatives spread on Facebook a handwritten letter dated September 10, sent from the green sea prison. In the text, the leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) confirms that he accepted the exile to protect his wife and children, but emphasizes that he makes him under pressure from the regime.
Likewise, he denounces “brutal beating, torture, humiliations, threats even death” and that his family has suffered “the most ruthless persecution” in order to force him to leave the country or to renounce his activism.
Ferrer describes that he has been the victim of “cruel inhuman and degrading treatment by slender and other instruments of the worst dictatorship that the American continent has known.” He ensures that in the last four months and nine days the cruelty intensified, and details theft of his food and cleaning products, “ordered by the regime’s minions.”
The opponent argues that, before his arrest of April 29, he had already valued exile for family reasons, but that this “decision” was the result of direct pressures: “Give extreme conditions ”.
In addition, he denounces manipulation attempts to present it as a government collaborator, as well as pressures to push him to promote an international understanding favorable to the regime. “They wanted to make statements or ask (…) a dialogue that leads to the shameful ‘negotiation’ of other times: liberation of political prisoners in exchange for lifting of sanctions and other facilities to the dictatorship.”
Faced with that demand, he warns: “If my life and that of my family depends on asking such things, I prefer my death in this field of Nazi -style concentration and even the sacrifice of my family.”
Ferrer remarks that he will not accept an dishonorable exit: “From Cuba I only go out with my dignity and honor at high and not for a long time. Although I have lost my faith in many opponents because of its disunity, sectarianism and lack of effectiveness, I still have a lot in the good fighters that remain (…). I would continue fighting until you reach victory or die in the attempt to see Cuba free.”
And he explains his temper in prison: “Only the immense love for my family and my attachment to the non -violent struggle have made it possible for me to keep calm and do not defend me with so many abuses, violence and humiliations with the methods that any human being would have used in such extreme circumstances.”
According to his story, he survives “among common criminals capable of all crime”, under the orders of the head of the prison, Vladimir Pineda, who “hates him brutally”, and from political police officers who hit him, steal and cause him constantly.
“Survive in the worst conditions that a prisoner can survive in the western hemisphere, but I am willing to die, rather than give up. I am ready to die, but not to live without honor, without dignity.” The letter concludes with a shout of resistance: “Long live Cuba free! Below tyranny! Down hunger and misery! Below oppression!”
Ferrer had been provisionally released in January 2025 as part of an agreement between the Cuban regime and the Vatican, but that measure was revoked after the death of Pope Francis. He was arrested again on April 29 during an operation in his home, and since then remains imprisoned in conditions of isolation and under systematic abuses that seek to force him to leave the country.
