The young journalist Enrique Pérez Fumero, who two weeks ago was the victim of a brutal beating in Santiago de Cubaremained stable after being operated again this week.
As reported on Thursday Víctor Hugo Leyva Sojo, president of the Union of Journalists (UPEC) in the Santiago territory, also the radio filmmaker and university professor presented “the vital parameters within normality” and was “conscious and cooperative”.
In his report on the health of Pérez Fumero from the explanations received by the doctors, the union manager said that the “permanent surveillance on other adjacent situations that could be derived from the time it has been in bed”.
A day before, Leyva Sojo He had reported that the young journalist – who was hit with viciousness to steal him as he walked at dawn by Santiago de Cuba – was surgically intervened on Tuesday satisfactorily.
The operation “was scheduled” and its “objectives were fulfilled satisfactorily,” he said without providing other details of the procedure tentatively in the head, where the communicator suffered serious affectations as a consequence of the beating.
At that time he pointed out that the patient was “serious stable, with immediate satisfactory postoperative” and that the direction of the Saturnino Lora hospital, the neurosurgeons and the intensive therapy team that treats him in a “permanent” evolution monitored.
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Pérez Fumero, who is a doctor of communication sciences and is known in the journalistic and radio medium for his second last name, was brutally assaulted in the early hours of last Sunday, August 3 allegedly to steal his shoes, cell phone and wallet, as it transcended then on social networks.
As a result, he suffered cranial fractures and other effects that led him to be between life and death, and to be surgically intervened for the first time after a magnetic resonance in the province of Las Tunas.
After that operation, not exempt from difficulties, it has remained under medical surveillance in intensive care, and its gradual progression – even in the middle of its gravity – made it possible to be operated again this week, as it has been reporting Leyva Sojo in several publications.
The case, occurred in the midst of a growing wave of violence and criminal acts in Cuba – recognized even by authorities, although they blame the networks a greater “visibility” of these events – Santiago shocked and the radial and journalistic guild, as well as many other people inside and outside the island.
Together with the orders for the recovery of Fumero, which are maintained until today, many have advocated justice and apprehends and punish their aggressors, as well as all the authors of other crimes and violent events that occurred in recent times.
However, so far the authorities have not publicly informed about the march of investigation of what happened or specified if there are already people detained for their alleged link with this case.
