The Cuban activist Magdiel Jorge Castro, who disseminates information and opinions through social networks, received an expulsion order from Bolivia on Monday, where he resides. He has 15 days to leave the country, according to what he himself denounced through a direct broadcast on Twitter.
“The justification that they use is my publications on social networks, publications that are basically against the Cuban government, against the dictatorship, and denunciations of human rights violations,” Castro reiterated to 14ymedio via telephone.
The young man says that when he arrived at Immigration “there was a whole folder with my tweets, as State Security tends to do in Cuba.” He asked which of his publications violated the law, he assures him, “and they couldn’t tell me.”
In the migratory resolution, to which this newspaper has accessed, it is indicated that Castro “infringed Bolivian regulations, altering public order through social networks.” For this reason, the text continues, on December 16, 2022 “the temporary mandatory departure resolution is granted.”
“I want to make it very clear that my publications, which you can access because of my public profile, have never alluded to Bolivian national policy and are exclusively towards my country”
By “acts that disturb public order,” says the document, it is understood “participation and/or incitement to: riots, confrontation between citizens and acts against morality and/or dignity.”
Before the summons received last Friday, Castro says, they had not contacted or warned him.
“I want to make it very clear that my publications, which you can access because my public profile is there, have never alluded to Bolivian national policy and are exclusively towards my country,” defends Castro, who does not yet know if he will resort the ruling, for which you have three days.
What he does plan to continue doing is reporting it. “It seems enormously arbitrariness, but it seems even more scandalous to me that Bolivia lends its public institutions to the armed wing of the Cuban State Security to get here and manage at will the rule of law of a sovereign country such as the Plurinational State of Bolivia”.
There is no record of a similar case occurring to any other Cuban.
After the suspension of diplomatic relations with Cuba by the then interim president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, today in jailstill without trial, for, according to his persecutors, having carried out a “coup d’état”, both countries returned to get closer with the Government of Luis Arce.
The Bolivian president was received a few days ago by his Cuban counterpart, Miguel Díaz-Canel, in Havana, where he also attended the extraordinary session of the National Assembly in commemoration of the eighteenth anniversary of the creation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (Alba-TCP).
⚠️⚠️ #Urgent. I have been expelled from the Plurinational State of Bolivia in a political decision that sets a disastrous precedent… I ask everyone to share!! #Down with the Dictatorship pic.twitter.com/Tx1sp2pHl1
— Mag Jorge Castro?? (@mjorgec1994) December 19, 2022
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