Miami/The former Lieutenant Colonel of the Cuban Interior Ministry Jorge Luis Vega García today has his residence in the United States, where he arrived with parole humanitarian on January 20, 2024. As Mario J. Pentón revealed on Thursday Martí Newsthe former official entered the US territory through the Tampa airport, in Florida, along with his wife and son, and was able to accept the Cuban adjustment law. His history as “one of the most feared repressors” was not detected during the immigration research process.
From him some of his victims offer testimony, such as Pablo Pacheco, Fidel Suárez, Blas Giraldo Reyes or Benito Ortega, who passed through prisons such as Agüica and Gutleta, in Matanzas, where Vega García served.
“There are faces in these years in prison that are unforgettable, it is like a tattoo that is made in your soul,” explains Pablo Pacheco, imprisoned during black spring, in a video published by Pentón. The former political prisoner tells in those images that “Veguita”, as he was known, was then captain and second chief of the prison of Agüica, and carried “his short, Nazi style.” “You saw him evil on his face,” said the former prisoner.
“Veguita is one of the many murderers that Cuba has”
Fidel Suárez says: “Veguita is one of the many murderers that Cuba has.” Together with other officials, such as Emilio Cruz, from the prison where the opponent was, he continued, they gave him in a month nineteen beatings. “They permanently miserable the right side, from my leg almost to the neck,” says Suárez.
Blas Giraldo Reyes, meanwhile, sentence that tortured both political and common prisoners. They all describe it as “a executioner.”
“The man told me ‘Will you think to leave one day? The only thing the military did, was “to” laugh and say that the revolution was eternal, that no one could fall as a fell. ” If that moment came, the agent concluded, they were going to “tear their heads together and would fill all the halls with blood.”
Benito Ortega recounts the time Vega García prevented him from going to his mother’s funeral, putting the condition of being dressed in prisoner, to which the opponent refused.
Martí News It offers images of two documents signed by Jorge Luis Vega García that prove that it is the same rubric: one in Cuba in 2010 and another in the US this year. Sources with access to classified information assure Pentón that the regime erased the personal file of the former military of the island’s migratory system, something common, explains the journalist, to facilitate the “discrete exit” of trusted people.
“If you defended communism so much, if you identified so much with communism, what are you doing here, in the country that you criticized so much?”
In a call, who cut shortly, Vega García denied Martí News having belonged to the Cuban prison system, after which he blocked his telephone number. “I am convinced that he is,” Pacheco determines, who adds with bitter irony: “If you defended communism so much, if you identified so much with communism, what are you doing here, in the country that you criticized so much, that you attacked so much? You do not deserve to be here.”
The case of Vega García joins others such as Daniel Morejón Garcíaresident in the United States and identified as a repressor by the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, who was arrested by the customs immigration and control service (ICE) and deported to the island on May 30.
More than 100 Cubans linked to the regime appear in a List that Congressman Carlos Giménez He delivered a few months ago to the Internal Security Department. It is presumed that it appeared Jorge Javier Rodríguez Cabrerafriend of Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, The crabarrested on Monday by ICE in Las Vegas, where he had created a successful business.
After this arrest, Giménez He was “very happy” And he predicted that other arrests of “many people who are driving business with Cuba in an illegal way are coming.”
