Havana/Only 21 days lived in the United States, “under the conditions that were”, former Cuban judge Juana Orquídea Acanda Rodríguez after being arrested at Miami airport. Accused of Lying in your family gathering interview Regarding her affiliation to the Communist Party (PCC), the lawyer was deported this Saturday to the island.
In a brief phone call since his residence in Havana, the former 62 -year -old judge told the journalist Mario J. Pentón his reaction after being returned to the country. Accompanied by her partner, she said she is “calm.” “Today I arrived in Cuba. I’m fine, I don’t feel bad at all. I think I had an experience. Having experiences is a good thing, and I lived at least – in the conditions that were – 21 days in the United States. I didn’t know him. It’s something I met,” he told the reporter.
Asked for her false statement to the American immigration authorities, to which she assured that she had no links with the PCC in the consular interview, Acanda replied: “It does not matter, men are wrong.” According to the retiree, he has always led a “dignified life.”
“Life continues. We all wrong. We all have the right to make mistakes. I am a humble woman,” he settled.
Acanda was intercepted on March 20 by agents of the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) upon arrival at Miami International Airport. For US authorities, any link with the PCC, the judicial system or the forces of the order of the Cuban regime can be considered a critical factor in the evaluation of visa, asylum or residence applications of citizens of the island.
The former judge appears in various matter
Despite having worked for more than three decades in the courts of the island, Acanda erased her past as a official and, in fact, they cannot find profiles with her name on social networks.
However, the former judge appears in various mattail media, in articles that cover galas, ceremonies and decorations, many of them in her honor. In one of those reports where it is mentioned, it is read: “Perhaps the retirement keeps it apart, in quotes, from the courts, but in their mind and heart, orchid will always be a judge.”
A similar case, although it has not reached deportation, is that of the Cuban Judge Melody González Pedraza, who arrived with parole but she was arrested in an air terminal in the United States after revealing her repressive history. The former official had sentenced four 11J protesters in Cuba.
At the beginning of April, the case of Misael Enamorado Dagerformer first secretary of the PCC in Santiago de Cuba, who self -exported from the United States to Cuba at the end of March.
The former official returned to the island with his family after arriving in US territory, about a year ago, through the ‘Parole’ program
According to Pentón then, the former official returned to the island with his family after arriving in US territory, about a year ago, through the program of parole humanitarian.
“The former communist leader made the voluntary decision to return to Cuba after receiving multiple legal notifications and an increase in public scrutiny,” said the journalist. The pressures on love had intensified after Republican congressman Carlos Giménez included his name in a list of 100 Cuban repressors who had to be deported to the island.
