According to statements by the opposition leader José Daniel Ferrer and the citizen Josefina Reyes London, known as “finite”, the State security pressed the latter to contaminate the food for the elderly, children, patients and people in street situations who go to the UNPACU headquarters daily.
“I asked him to help me with the elaboration of food because it is a good cook. The Unpacu was also going to support her with resources for her children,” Ferrer explained. “She is not an opponent, but as with any solidarity work or in favor of democratization, the political police began with the pressures: arrests, threats, recruitment attempts.”
Ferrer argues that the Police forced Reyes London to collaborate under threats: “They told him that he had to act as an agent under the name of ‘Román’, which was the name of his late husband. They threatened her with putting her son imprisoned, removing the house and with other reprisals.”
Finita herself denounced in an audiovisual testimony that an agent asked her to “throw something to the food they were going to give me”, and that they even suggested to place “bed bugs.” She refused, noting that her own children consume the cooked food there, as well as other people, including young children. She also denounced that she was forced to sign a document that identified her as an agent, under threat of evicting her or imprisoning her son.
Ferrer directly held the highest authorities in the country directly: “This is not a local initiative. It is a Diaz-Canel and Raúl Castro order to kill, poison my family, me, elderly, sick.”
Since its release on January 16, after more than three years in isolation, Ferrer has resumed the humanitarian work of the UNPACU. The project, which began according to six people, has grown up to more than a thousand people daily with food and basic medical care. However, this work has been White of a growing police harassment In recent weeks.
