The communicator Adelth Bonne, after years of police harassment, pressure against those around him and the imposition of exile as the only alternative to prison, is forced to renounce his collaboration with CubaNet.
A new escalation has forced the reporter Adelth Bonne Gamboa to publicly renounce collaborating with our media. In the last two years, the young man has been harassed by the political police. His mother was threatened with losing her job and with dire consequences for her son’s physical integrity, which caused him to have a hypertension crisis that required medical attention. His friends and relatives were also called and intimidated to stop seeing him and show their support, all with the aim of isolating him and making him more vulnerable to the effects of prolonged political persecution.
After a regulated period of time, the restoration of Adelth Bonne’s right to leave the country was part of a negotiation forced by State Security, in which he was left with only two options: exile or prison, a pattern of political violence that other journalists in our media and the independent press in general have suffered. In these cases, leaving the country also implies a subsequent prohibition on returning to Cuba.
CubaNet calls on the international community, the Cuban exile, the citizens within the island and the organizations in charge of monitoring freedom of the press and expression, to denounce this regrettable episode that adds to continuous attacks against our collaborators.
The house arrests of the journalist Camila Acosta They have become more frequent as the national situation worsens and demonstrations of citizen rejection of the Government’s management and a provenly unviable political system increase.
Our reporter Angel Cuza He remains in custody awaiting trial following arbitrary police detention. Cuza has suffered two political imprisonments previously, and between January 2022 and November 2023 alone, Cubalex recorded 10 arrests of the citizen journalist.
The repressive bodies have physically attacked journalists Vladimir Turro and Osniel Carmonaand have threatened the integrity of their families.
Police sieges, subpoenas, selective internet cuts, threats, prohibitions on leaving the country and assassination of reputation are some of the terrible and arbitrary actions with which our journalists are punished, seeking to intimidate, discourage and wear them down, with demonstrated danger to their safety and mental health.
The pressure exerted caused, in the recent past, that collaborators such as Augusto César San Martín, Jose Luis Tan and Enrique Diaz They had to leave an island where there is no longer any moral position other than opposition to the regime that Raúl Castro continues to lead today with Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez as the designated leader.
Although the website CubaNet continues to be blocked for those who read us from Cuba, due to the blackouts and the increase in the cost of Internet service, our number of followers on the island has grown considerably, which constitutes the most valuable recognition of the quality and relevance of our work.
Despite the harassment, we have collaborators in almost all the provinces of the country who feel the duty to inform, reveal and subject to public scrutiny everything that the Cuban dictatorship denies, covers up and hides. Many of our reporters have been forced not to sign their articles or to use a pseudonym to protect themselves and their loved ones from political repression. The journalists Camila Acosta and Ana León (Anay Remón) They have been regulated, respectively, for six and seven years, but they continue working within Cuba, suffering the same daily miseries as the rest of the citizens.
Silence will never be an option. CubaNet It will remain at the service of Cubans who understand the urgency of a free and our homeland. The international community must not continue to look the other way while innocent citizens are criminalized and uprooted by one of the worst dictatorships Latin America has ever known.
In this decisive hour, marked by the cruelty of a family clan willing to take an entire town before it to retain power, and by a state press that witnesses, impassive and complicit, the slow and painful disintegration of the nation, the independent press and civic activism are the last line of defense, the one that prevents Cuba from dying in the dark, invisible to millions of consciences on which the abandonment of a population that has been humiliated to the point of horror, as well as the shameful collusion with a murderous regime.
