AREQUIPA, Peru – The young Cuban activist Leandro René Hernández Ibarra is stranded at the Jorge Chávez airport in the city of Lima, in Peru. This, after the Nicaraguan authorities denied their entry to the latter country.
In a video that shared on X (formerly Twitter), Hernández Ibarra denounced the repression of the Cuban regime, even outside the borders of the Island.
“I am a young Cuban who has openly dissented from the policies of the regime that dominates my country and that always caused me problems with State Security,” he explained in the publication.
According to him, he is stranded in Peru because “the tentacles” of the Cuban dictatorship “reach as far as Managua,” the capital of Nicaragua, a regime allied with Havana that he describes as the “mascot” of Castroism.
“I am in immigration limbo because I cannot leave Lima and I cannot enter Managua. I can’t even go to El Salvador, they didn’t let me arrive. It is a flight with the Avianca airline,” explains Hernández Ibarra in reference to one of the transfers. “I make this video so that Latin America learns how far the clutches of Cuban communism reach.”
The Cuban dictatorship, in complicity with its allies in the region, has led to similar cases in the past. Less than a month ago, on November 2, the journalist from CubaNet Enrique Díaz Rodríguez was also stranded with his family, in almost identical circumstances, inside the Lima airport.
A couple of years before, in 2022, the journalists of the independent media Cuba DNA and members of the San Isidro MovementHector Luis Valdés Cocho and Esteban Rodríguez, also they were stranded in El Salvador.
The two were expelled to Nicaragua, a place that would be a temporary refuge before requesting asylum in another country. However, Daniel Ortega’s regime did not admit them either.
