Havana, Cuba. – activist Ohauris Rondón Rivero, released on February 27 in the context of The 553 release announced by the Cuban regime in Januarydenounced the corruption existing in Unit 1580, known as the Pitirre, as well as the ill -treatment of the authorities of this prison against the inmates.
“At 1580 they are told ‘the dryer’. The food is very bad, the measure of the rice is 20 to 30 grams; the pasta is the whole year rotten and without salt; the bread never appears and what they give you is a donkey banana as if one were a dog. The fainting falls one after the other of the hung Cetem Correctional, near prison 1580.
“The greatest responsible are the chief of the prison and the head of the interior order; that is the one who hit there. There they torture you, they give you beatings, they take away your clothes, they throw water and spray in the eyes; they give you the mattress at 10:00 at 10:00 at night and they take it away at 5:00 in the morning,” added the political expreasing political, who also assured that “the doctors are the same. Specialized care is the main cause of inmate deaths.

Rondón Rivero, known as El Trillizo, was sentenced at the beginning of November 2023 for the crimes of damage to property and propaganda against the constitutional order. He was first accused of vandalizing a pharmacy and placing posters against the government in the Marianao municipality; Then he was charged with a common white weapon tenure.
According to the activist, despite having been released, he does not feel free, since he is constantly threatened by the Political Police so that he does not make complaints about the situation in jail.
“They say that there is freedom of expression here, because I will continue to complain where to be, inside or outside. I am not afraid that they will revoke me probation, I will not shut up because I am in my right to express myself,” Rondón Rondón Rivero said Cubanet.
In addition, he referred to the corruption of the guards within the prison. As noted, the police itself is the one that introduces the drug known as “The Chemist” Within the prison. “They give it to the same inmates to sell it and consume it,” he denounced.
“I don’t feel satisfied with my freedom because I have many brothers there, inside that corruption, spending a lot of hunger and without medical care,” he ended.