Ángel Cuza and Daniel Alfaro Frías denounce judicial irregularities and call for unity and freedom from the Guanajay prison.
MADRID, Spain.- Political prisoners Ángel Cuza Alfonso and Daniel Alfaro Frías sent messages of hope to the Cuban people from the Guanajay maximum security prison, in the province of Artemisa, at the beginning of 2026, despite remaining deprived of liberty for reasons linked to their political activism.
Cuza, an independent journalist and activist, reported that he has been imprisoned for months without a formal prosecutor’s petition having been filed or a trial having been held against him. He also pointed out that his defense has not been able to hold interviews with representatives of State Security to find out the real status of his criminal process.
“Six months in prison, without a prosecutor’s request, without anything. The lawyer has tried to go and interview people from State Security but nothing yet. Those people have not wanted to show their faces,” he said in conversation with Martí News from the prison.
In his message to the country, Cuza wished Cubans health and strength and called not to abandon the civic struggle.
Last November, Ángel Cuza sent a public letter in which he denounced new human rights violations during his detention and blamed State Security for the deterioration of his physical and emotional conditions. In that testimony, he stated that he preferred death rather than continue in prison under what he described as arbitrary imprisonment without legal guarantees.
For his part, Daniel Alfaro Frías, 71, is serving a nine-year prison sentence for crimes associated with associations, meetings and demonstrations considered illegal by the authorities. The political prisoner explained that the closing dates and beginning of the year are especially hard for those who remain imprisoned, due to the forced separation from their families. Alfaro reiterated that his greatest desire for Cuba continues to be freedom.
Various independent organizations and human rights defenders have warned about the systematic use of the Cuban penal system to punish dissent, through opaque processes, prolonged preventive detentions and disproportionate sanctions against activists, journalists and peaceful opponents.
