The trial of artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and rapper Maykel Castillo Osorbo was concluded for sentencing on Tuesday afternoon. As noted by the writer Carlos Manuel Alvarez On his social networks, Osorbo’s final words at the Marianao Court in Havana were: “I hope that the sentence that you decide, Madam Judge, is that of your conscience.”
The tone of this day, the second of the process for the leaders of the San Isidro Movement, was, once again, harassment of activists and journalists. Most of the editorial 14ymedio in Havana he woke up without internet, just like reporters from other independent media.
The businesswoman and activist Saily González was arrested in the middle of the street while she was walking on Tuesday to protest the trial against the artists, wearing a white sweater with the handwritten slogans: “Free Maykel Osorbo” and “Free Luisma”, while broadcasting it live.
In his video, he referred to the regime as “terrorist” and “fascist”, and attacked “all the injustices and arbitrariness that we are suffering”. The Government, he continued, “cannot handle free souls,” that is why “it wants them imprisoned.” “Did I insult the national symbols?” He wondered, alluding to the accusation against Alcántara for his performance Drapeau, to which they replied: “That’s when I see Miguel Díaz-Canel standing next to the Cuban flag.”
“I hope the Cuban people recover the spirit of Maceo,” González claimed to revive “patriotism” on the island
The tour, just like he did last november 19after the frustrated Civic March for Change called for the 15N, happened to leave a flower at the foot of the statue of Antonio Maceo, in Santa Clara.
“I hope the Cuban people recover the spirit of Maceo,” González claimed to revive “patriotism” on the island. The businesswoman also asked not only for freedom for Alcántara and Osorbo but “for all political prisoners.”
Specifically, he mentioned Andy García Lorenzo, also from Santa Clara, who he re-entered this Monday to prison after being revoked the change of his sentence for demonstrating on 11J, for four years, for an “open regime” camp.
González said that the day before he had spoken with the young man, who told him that he did not understand how the Cuban people were so afraid on 15N, that on that day the prisoners put on white pullovers and claimed the demonstration called by the Archipelago platform.
In addition, he affirmed that his exit through the streets of Santa Clara is “an act of resistance to power” and invited all Cubans to do so. “If instead of one we walked ten, and the next time there were twenty and the next time there were a hundred, that’s how the Berlin Wall came down. Another rooster would crow and Cuba would be free,” González asserted.
The activist referred to the “arbitrariness” that supposes that she was allowed to walk and not Carlos Ernesto Díaz González, captive, of Cienfuegos, imprisoned for carrying out exactly the same action. “That I was able to do it simply exemplifies the arbitrariness of the Cuban dictatorship,” he argued.
Moments later, it is seen how a State Security agent stops her and tries to take her phone. At that moment, she cuts the recording of her, without her whereabouts being known at this time.
Moments later, it is seen how a State Security agent stops her and tries to take her phone. At that moment, she cuts the recording of her, without her whereabouts being known at this time.
The actor Daniel Triana, arrested this Monday when he left his house to go to the Court of Marianao, in Havana, where the trial of Alcántara and Osorbo was held, was released hours later. He told it himself in his networks, taking it seriously: “They already released me. They had me in the 11th (San Miguel del Padrón). The really hard ones are in prison.”
The journalist and opponent Boris González also woke up with a police operation this morning. “On the way to their schools, my children have to pass in front of the patrol car, knowing that it is there for their father, and allow themselves to be scrutinized by the gazes of the State Security agent and the police, as if that were normal. But that It is not normal, nor is it ‘necessary for national security’, nor ‘it is what it is,'” his wife, Juliette Isabel Fernández Estrada, denounced on Facebook.
For her part, the curator Anamely Ramosfrom the United States, exploded against the change of lawyer to Maykel Osorb, just three days before the trial. “All I want to do is yell and offend,” he warned. “Today everyone has agreed that Maykel’s defense is reverend shit. It doesn’t surprise us. We know how far a lawyer from a collective firm in Cuba can maneuver in cases politicians like this.
The result is, Ramos claimed, “that this new lawyer, Yoilandris Savón, barely spoke and it was Maykel himself who explained everything, with a serenity – they tell me – that many would not recognize in Maykel but those of us who know him well, yes. Maykel He has always been very aware of everything he has done, its meaning and the risks”.
That lawyer, continued the activist, “has achieved with his poor performance so far, that the trial looks unbalanced. That within the general disaster, the injustice and the absolute sadness that falls on both of them, the part related to Maykel seems much more devoid of everything. Because that is what feeds that miserable power, to accentuate helplessness even when it seems that it is not possible anymore, to accentuate the vulnerability more of some than of others, when it seems impossible to divide between bad and bad.
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