MIAMI, United States. – In the wake of the repression against the recent demonstrations in Nuevitas, CamagüeyCuban activist Pedro López, one of the spokesmen for the family of political prisoner Andy García Lorenzo, denounced that the “Cuban Police is serving a caste as a private army.”
During the demonstrations in that municipality of Camagüey, the regime proceeded to arrest several demonstrators and the 21 year old responsible for the various live broadcasts of the protests. Likewise, three Cuban girls denounced who had been beaten by police officers.
The authorities have “everything to repress,” López said during an interview with CubaNet this Tuesday. “The only thing that works in this country is repression. It works 100% and with proven efficiency,” he added.
Regarding the situation of Andy Garcia Lorenzo He said that the young man was “in good spirits.”
“He is the one who gives us strength, but his situation in prison right now is very delicate. He is in a maximum security prison and has a disease called hypercalciuria”.
“They are not giving him his diet or his medications and, in addition, they prevent us from accessing there with what he needs,” he lamented.
He also said that the situation of the whole family is “quite precarious”.
“This has been escalating. they have me now Jonathan [su hijo] with open processes. In my case for ‘instigation to commit a crime’ and in Jonatan’s for ‘disobedience’. We both have a precautionary measure of house arrest.
López also assured that, although they are very concerned, they cannot stop denouncing the repression unleashed by the regime against their family. “What we have done in this time has been to denounce all the abuses against Andy. We are not criminals,” he asserted.
In the middle of this month, Roxana García Lorenzo, Andy’s sister, reported that the 24-year-old had not eaten for two days and had health problems.
García Lorenzo was violently arrested on 11J last year and sentenced to four years in prison for participating in the protests. He was released for five days last May and returned to prison, this time to a labor camp for inmates. The young man has refused to work and the prison authorities keep him isolated from the rest of the inmates.
On July 23 of this year, his family reported that his whereabouts were unknown after prison authorities informed them that the young man he had been transferred from a forced labor camp, but without further details.
Due to the constant complaints and expressions of support, Andy García’s family remains under constant harassment by the Cuban repressive organs. His brother-in-law, Jonathan López, and his father, Pedro López, have an open investigation process for alleged crimes of “disobedience” and “instigation to commit a crime”, respectively. Both, along with his sister, Roxana García, have also been arrested on several occasions and remained under police surveillance.
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