Havana/A great police operation surrounds the house of José Daniel Ferrer, leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), after a citation of the court for this Friday was missing. The opponent confirmed 14ymedio that he had neither came nor plan to do it.
Released at the beginning of January after a negotiation between the Vatican and the Cuban regime, Ferrer had to appear in the municipal court of Santiago de Cuba at 9:00 am this Friday. According to the opponent, in the immediate vicinity of his house there is “a lot of surveillance” and have fined for different reasons to several people who moved through the area.
At the moment, he remains awaiting the reaction of the authorities to his refusal to go. “Attending would be to accept that I am under the status of house arrest. I do not accept that status: I would only accept being free, ”he told this newspaper.
Near noon, Ferrer shared on his Facebook profile a speech in which he stressed the urgency of a “unified leadership and a parliament of free Cubans.” “I may have only hours out of prison,” he warned, “I may even have a little time to life. They may soon be locked me again in the most extreme isolation, so my haste to share this message. ”
“Attending would be to accept that I am under the status of house arrest. I do not accept that status: I would only accept being free “
Ferrer also requested “democracy, respect for human rights and well -being”, indispensable for the “democratization of Cuba.” “It is time for Cubans who love freedom to believe a structure that represents the majority who wants the transition in the home of Martí,” he said, stressing that social networks were a “magnificent tool” of organization.
To form a “free Cuban” parliament, the opponent requested a kind of “primary elections” to achieve the democratic representation of Cubans both in the country and internationally, “before solidarity and friends peoples.”
“It’s time to get to such a necessary work,” he claimed. “It is time to control certain egos and banish what may exist or stay in some of us in terms of blindness and political limitations.”
This has happened with each initiative for the freedom that Cubans have promoted throughout history, he recalled. It was the case of the Varela project, “an initiative that united many and laid a precedent.” He also cited the People’s Party, which “made historical elections through the Internet,” already Cuba decides, that “he has mobilized Cubans and friends in all parts of the world.”
He also mentioned the Council for the Democratic Transition, which “works fraternally” and reconciling “various ideologies”-“liberals, conservatives, social democrats, democratic-Christians”-that fight for the freedom of the country. They are organizations that “understand how democracy works,” he said.
He warned of sabotage that, with certainty, the regime will execute on this initiative. But, he added, “nothing and anyone can prevent us from choosing our leaders and our Parliament.” He highlighted the role of exiled Cubans, who “play a vital role.” He called them to be “protagonists in the process of salvation and reconstruction of our nation.”
He thanked, finally, those who support those who suffer, within the country and “in the front row, harassment of all kinds” by the regime.
