MIAMI, United States. — Journalist Karla Pérez González, banished by the cuban regimewas reunited this Friday with his family in Costa Rica, the country where he has lived since 2017.
The 23-year-old shared an image on social networks with her parents and sister, whom she had not seen for four years, ten months and 28 days.
“Four years, ten months and 28 days separated from my family. Now together and in freedom,” wrote Pérez González, who had to leave the island at just 17 years old after being expelled from the Central University of Las Villas (UCLV) —where she was studying Journalism— due to her affiliation with the opposition movement. We are more.
In Costa Rica, the journalist managed to continue her studies at the Universidad Latina, from which she graduated in December 2020. However, the Cuban regime blocked her entry to the island in March of last year, justifying her decision on the alleged links between Pérez González and reactionary sectors in the United States.
The decision took the young woman by surprise, who had processed her passport at the Cuban Embassy in San José without being warned that she was prohibited from returning to Cuba.
“The close links with his mentor Eliécer Ávila are well known. She is an instrument. It is not the first time that it has been used and that they use this type of management and tactics for illegal and destabilizing actions against Cuba, ”said Yaira Jiménez Roig, director of Communication and Image of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at a press conference. (MINREX).
Despite the exile to which she was sentenced, Costa Rican authorities arranged for Pérez González to return to Costa Rica, the country where she lives with the status of refugee.
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