MIAMI, United States. — Cuban Héctor Colón, a former Escambray combatant, is one of the defenders of the Revolution who has suffered abandonment by the island’s authorities.
With an extensive career as a militiaman, Colón, a resident of the town of Birán, is still waiting for a house that had been assigned to him five years ago, but which has never been delivered to him.
Eliza Frómeta García, wife of the ex-combatant, denounced before CubaNet that the authorities alleged his death to justify the delay in handing over the property.
According to the woman, after going to Havana, to the provincial capital of Holguín and to the government of the municipality of Cueto, the authorities finally gave an answer to her husband’s case.
“They say they thought he was dead. How are they going to know if he is dead if they have never come to visit him, ”said the woman to this newspaper.
Eliza Frómeta pointed out that despite the health problems her husband is facing —he has already undergone three operations—, he can walk and bathe on his own, as well as eat and drink water without difficulty.
The woman points out that Héctor Colón fought against the anti-Castro guerrillas in the Escambray in the early 1960s, and that during the invasion of Bay of Pigs was mobilized in Banes.
Héctor Colón and his wife, Eliza Frómeta, live in a wooden house, with a floor made of the same material, in the middle of the mountain.
The family says they feel cheated by the State, especially Héctor, who suffers from giving his youth to the Revolution and then being abandoned.
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