The Cuban regime prevented this Saturday the return to the island of the activist Omara Ruiz Urquiola. The opponent herself denounced from the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida, United States, that her ticket had been canceled when she tried to travel by Southwest airline.
“They didn’t let me fly. It’s another North American company that bows to the dictatorship,” he said in a video shared on Facebook. “These are the results of engagementThese are the results of doing business with human rights violators,” said Ruiz Urquiola, who was in the United States receiving medical treatment.
He also made it clear that his home is in Cuba. There “I have everything, I have absolutely nothing in this country, it has never been my interest to emigrate. My mother is waiting for me, my aunt, my cousin, they are waiting for me, that is, my family, my life, my animals, my home and they just decide that I can’t get in.
According to him, he has all his immigration documents in order, including his passport. “I do not have any problem in the objective order that prevents me from returning to my house. I still do not understand how someone can decide that I cannot return, that I cannot enter my house,” she lamented.
“These are the results of engagement, these are the results of doing business with human rights violators”
“Right now I don’t know what to do, I can’t predict what’s going to happen to me because I’m in shock. He did not expect such arbitrariness. I am not a terrorist, I have never broken any law. I have never been given a ticket for walking on the lawn. I am a peaceful citizen.”
Ruiz Urquiola also recalled the same experience that activist Anamely Ramos had months ago, when she was unable to board her American Airlines flight in Miami because Cuba refused her entry. “This is happening because of the complicity of the United States government,” she reiterated.
He also said that the airline is complying with a provision of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior “and it is completely absurd.” The activist requested the official document that indicates the veto to fly and the airline replied that they have an office in Havana and her representative was the one who sent the notification to Migration of the Island.
“What is happening today with Omara brings to light the same question: who or what guarantees the rights of Cubans? Is there any way to claim them?” wrote Anamely Ramos on her Facebook profile.
Ramos added that “the rights of Cubans are violated inside Cuba because it is a dictatorship, “and outside? Why are they also raped outside of Cuba? “, Questioned the curator who ended her message with the label #DerechoARegresar.
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