MIAMI, United States. – Cuban teenager Kevin Pezeta Godswolf, the protagonist of one of the most iconic photos of the repression unleashed by the island’s regime on 11J, left Cuba to avoid reprisals from the regime and is now in the Dominican Republic.
Pezeta Godswolf, who is popularly known as El Kende de Cayo Hueso, offered details about his situation during an interview posted on the channel Vladimir Jaquez’s YouTube.
In that material, The Kende of Key West specified that after the popular protests of 11J he was arrested and imprisoned for five days. Despite the fact that he was released, the Police forced him to report to the authorities every month.
“When I signed a paper I was declaring what I said in that paper was true, that I was an opponent, that I threw a stone, barbarities that they invent,” he said.
Also, the young influencer and his representative were ordered to serve the organs of State Security.
“The day after we said that we were not going to sign anything [para colaborar con la Seguridad del Estado]I received a letter from the Military Service”, commented El Kende, who believes that it was a reprisal for his refusal to collaborate with the regime.
At that time, the young man decided to leave the Island. After traveling to Haiti, he was able to move to the Dominican Republic, where he currently resides.
However, he assures that after his departure, authorities of the Cuban regime began to monitor and harass his mother, who was warned that her son could not return to Cuba,
In June 2020, the 19-year-old was arrested by the Police when he was making one of his videos on the roof of the building where he lived, accompanied by a group of fans who attended the place to watch the recording.
As a result of the event, figures such as the Cuban reggaeton singers Yomil Hidalgo and Chocolate MC, the musician Alexander Abreu, Los Pichy Boys and the singer La Diosa publicly requested the release of the minor on social networks.
After spending more than three days in prison for the alleged crime of “propagation of epidemics”, he was released.
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