MIAMI, United States. – Luis Ángel Adán Roble, the first openly gay deputy of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP), arrived in the United States this Wednesday, according to announced the young man himself on Facebook.
“Meta Accomplished in 72 hours,” wrote Adán Roble, who resigned his seat in the Cuban Parliament in 2019after a public controversy with the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX).
According to the emoticons used by the young man in his publication, he left Cuba for Mexico and then crossed into the United States through the southern border of that country.
In the post, Adán Roble thanked his mother, his boyfriend and “everyone who somehow” “helped, encouraged and gave his blessing to such an important decision.” “
“I am happy not only for having arrived, but for so many expressions of affection. Now to get ahead, ”she finished.
In January of this year, the former deputy announced that He would abandon his position as a doctor because of the low salary he received and the poor conditions in which he worked.
The young man explained in his profile Facebook that his alternative job as a waiter prevented him from continuing the specialty of Internal Medicine at the “General Freyre de Andrade” Surgical Clinical Hospital in Havana.
“I started the process of withdrawing from the specialty for various reasons, one of them being physical exhaustion. It is no secret to anyone that several years ago I worked as a waiter in a bar at night. The salary of 5,600 pesos (approximately 56 USD at the current exchange rate) per month is negligible compared to the work we do and life is expensive in a country with inflation of more than 70%,” the young man wrote.
In 2020, months after leave your post in Parliament, Roble revealed in social networks that State Security had tried to recruit him, to which he refused.
Due to his refusal, the island’s regime imposed a restriction on him leaving the country, describing him as a “person of public interest.”
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