MADRID, Spain.- Queen Luisa Tamayo, mother of Cuban opponent Orlando Zapata Tamayo, remembered her son on the 13th anniversary of his death.
“Thirteen years later, we are here fighting and always asking for justice, always justice, that justice sometimes takes time, but it has to come for those murderers,” he told Radio Television Martí.
It is worth remembering that Orlando Zapata Tamayo, while imprisoned by the island’s regime in 2010, went on an 86-day hunger strike that led to his death at the age of 42.
“And they murdered him because they couldn’t break him, just as they couldn’t break other brothers like Oswaldo Payá, Harold Cepero, the Lady in White, Laura Pollán. Since they could not break him, they murdered him. This suffering has not been easy,” Reina Luisa said with pain.
In his conversation with Radio Television Martí The lady thanked “all those who commemorate and always remember their son.”
Before leaving Cuba, Reina Luisa Tamayo, who lives in Kentucky, United States, joined the opposition group Ladies in White to demand the release of political prisoners on the island.
For this Saturday, in commemoration of the death of Orlando Zapata, the United Antitotalitarian Forum (FANTU) has called an act of tribute.
The appointment will be at 7:00 p.m. at the Cuban Memorial Boulevard Park in Miami, located on the iconic Calle Ocho.
Zapata Tamayo, born in Santiago de Cuba and a bricklayer by profession, in 2002 was imprisoned for three months by Cuban State Security, accused of contempt.
The following year, during the black spring, He was arrested again for the alleged crimes of public disorder and civil disobedience, and sentenced to 36 years of imprisonment in the Kilo 8 prison, in Camagüey.
The Cuban regime maintained the repression even after his death, by prohibiting those whom it considered opponents from entering the funeral, in Banes, with a strong police presence.
