| 07/03/2021 – 2:01pm (GMT-4)
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The freelance journalist Hector Luis Valdés Cocho He denounced this Sunday that he had received serious threats via Messenger from an account that uses an image of the mythical Cuban singer Celia Cruz as a profile photo.
“Well, obviously the desperation in these people is so great, that once again they use the lowest modes such as intimidation and threat. But what most outrages me is not only the clear intentions of trying to sow fear, but they use totally false profiles and to top it all, they use the image of a Cuban woman who had plenty of decorum and courage, like our dear Celia Cruz ”, he said on Facebook.
As he explained in the publication, the unidentified person had called him for more than an hour by private number and when he did not receive a response from him, “it violates privacy using Messenger.”
“You are born one day, you die the day you are marked. I am not afraid of death, but I do have great sorrow and shame for those who threaten to kill and have the little courage to show their face. Go ahead, kill if you have to kill, total, we had almost died 62 years, “he said.
In the messages he shares, the unknown user warns the journalist that he knows his personal address and that his “worst” decision was to have started working for the DNA Cuba medium. “(…) If you put one foot in the street to talk shit about the country that gave you everything, and we will take care of giving you what you deserve,” the message reads.
“We are going to leave you lying in a corner and no one is going to recognize how disfigured we are going to leave you,” says the user later, who also reminds you of the recent experience of activist Raúl Soblett, the journalist’s partner, who came to attack himself after several hours of questioning by State Security. “We are not playing,” he warns him at the end of the message.
Valdés has repeatedly denounced the harassment he suffers from the Cuban authorities due to his collaborations. At the end of January, he said that he had been evicted from the rental where he resided in Havana for the second time so far in 2021. In addition, the expulsion occurred on his birthday.
“I had to experience the disappointment of being told in the middle of the celebration party that I have to abandon my rent, again because I am who I am; a journalist who does not allow censorship, who does not allow himself to be manipulated and for being obviously member of the San Isidro Movement”, He assured.
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