The activist cannot use Etecsa’s services since July 4, when he was arrested to prevent him from attending the celebration organized by the US Embassy in Cuba.
Havana, Cuba. – Since July 2, in the context of celebrations for the United States Independence Day organized by the Embassy of that country in Havana, the vice president of the Council for the Democratic Transition in Cuba (CTDC), Manuel Cuesta Morúa, remains without mobile and fixed telephone services.
On that date, the activist was arrested, Like other dissidentsto prevent him from attending the annual meeting held by the diplomatic headquarters in commemoration of July 4, and since then its three more mobile lines their fixed number are “cut by the Cuban government”.
“Some friends facilitate communication, either anchor Cubanet The political activist.
According to Cuesta Morúa, the Telecommunications Company of Cuba (Etecsa) He has not offered any explanation about his case.
“It is a design to keep those in Cuba incommunicado that we somehow maintain a civic activism, human rights, political, systematic, permanent,” he said.
Cuesta Morúa is one of the CTDC coordinators. Precisely part of his work is to “try to connect, articulate, relate citizens to the proposals he drives” that initiative.
“It is a plural platform that lately has been developing a project called Citizen Assembly and in which we try to collect proposals, discuss, deliberate, talk, about the alternatives we have for Cuba and, obviously, what the government intends is to interrupt the communication that I hold with many citizens throughout the country,” explained the opposition leader.
“The government definitely does not want this to continue progressing, but we will persevere and continue to demand Etecsa because not only the established contracts are being violated but also my constitutional rights,” he added.
Cuesta Morúa intends to continue claiming before the state monopoly and climb the lawsuit before the Attorney General’s Office and the competent courts, so that his right to communication is restored.
“We believe that the support of citizenship, media and the international community is fundamental because freedom of expression is the fundamental guarantee for the construction of democracy in any country,” Cuban political scientist finally said.
