Miami, United States. – The journalist Camila Acosta, from Cubanetwas intercepted by two agents of the Ministry of Interior (dressed as civil) during A live broadcast in the corner of 11 and E, in El Vedado, Havana.
The two agents, who refused to show their credentials and say their names, demanded to Acosta to give them their official identification. After checking the document, both withdrew and left the journalist to continue on their way.
The reporter of Cubanet He was covering the procession by Good Friday in that area of Havana. “That was surrounded by state security agents,” said Acosta.
The young journalist is a usual target of state security. In April 2024, he was arrested this Sunday in Cárdenas by the agents of the Political Police when he was aimed at visiting the relatives of several political prisoners.
On that occasion, she was held at a Cárdenas PNR station for an hour and then returned to her home in Havana by a patrol caravan.
Acosta said that her captors did not give her any explanation about the causes of the arrest when she was arrested in a Piquera in Cárdenas next to the political expreasing Pedro de la Caridad Álvarez Pedroso, who resides in that city.
Acosta regretted that in the midst of the energy crisis that affects the country, the Ministry of Interior had fuel for repression.
“They spent a lot of fuel, yes, a lot of fuel, which gives you evidence that for repression they have all available resources. In one of the patrols I even had air conditioning,” said the journalist.
For her work as a reporter, Acosta has been subjected to constant harassment and harassment, as well as defamation in state media. In addition, he has remained in his home, unable to leave, with a police fence for consecutive days, and has been questioned and detained numerous occasions.
