AREQUIPA, Peru – A former Cuban State Security (SE) agent identified as Santos Ferro, deported to the island in 2019, was seen back in the United States.
The portal of AmericaTeVe indicates that Ferro is the first repressor identified by his victims in exile and was tried in Miami for trying to deceive the US immigration authorities about his past as a Castro agent.
The above was also denounced by Immigration lawyer Santiago Alpízar, vice president of Cubademanda and Cuba Repression ID.
Some of Santos Ferro’s victims, when he was leading the SE in San Cristóbal, Artemisa province, recognized him and photographed him a few years ago in a market in Miami. Since then, the organization that Alpízar leads has been involved in this case, with a leading role in its evolution.
The former repressor of Cuban regime He was arrested in February 2019, while in September of that same year a judge in the Southern District of Florida ordered his deportation to the Island, along with a sentence of six months in prison, two years of probation and restitution of more than $12,000.
After legally entering the country in 2012, Santos Ferro applied for permanent residency in the U.S. under the Cuban Adjustment Act, concealing his prior ties to the SE during the process.
Later, during his court case, he was accused of repressing opposition members in prisons in western Cuba, as well as of committing fraud against the U.S. Social Security system, since he received money from the government between 2016 and 2019.
Upon completion of his sentence in the USA and being deported to the Island, the Castro authorities allegedly did not accept his repatriation, so Ferros would be living freely today in American territory.
In this regard, victims of Cuban repressors now in exile can make their complaints to the aforementioned organizations, open through the telephone (305) 434-0364 and the email [email protected] to receive.
Repressors of the Cuban regime in the United States
The Foundation for Human Rights in Cubacongressmen and immigration lawyers have warned that hundreds of Cuban repressors have emigrated to the United States, according to a report table analysis held this Tuesday, August 27.
Experts say at least 115 people who have monitored, harassed and arrested regime opponents live in the United States.
Tony Costa, director of the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, said that a permanent database contains 1,015 repressorsa list that can be used to identify and prevent these individuals from entering the United States.
“Our way of helping those inside Cuba is by identifying those people who are specifically dedicated to repressing the opposition inside Cuba. And what we do is we identify them, we put them on a permanent website, which does not expire, so that in this way we can try to take the pressure off those inside Cuba,” they said.
In this way, they pointed out, it would be possible to prevent Castro officials from arriving in the United States and, in case they “sneak in,” have tools to analyze their case.
