The Castro regime expelled the Cuban activist Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia from the Island, using threats of a sentence of several years in prison for several alleged crimes she committed during her activism.
The forced exile was confirmed by the same activist, who shared a publication about it on her social networks, pointing out that the Municipal Court of Alquízar, Artemisa, had sentenced her to eight years in prison.
Through this post, Salcedo Verdecia shared how she was preparing to leave the Greater Antilles due to the risk of being sent to prison, accused of charges such as “enemy propaganda”, “instigation to commit a crime”, “outrage to national symbols”. ” and “defamation of a public figure.”
“I had to leave Cuba, I had to leave most of my children behind. Only two options for me: leave Cuba, my homeland, my land, the one I love and for which I have fought head-on for more than 14 years, or go to prison to serve an unjust eight-year sentence, which despite The appeals were of no use,” reads the activist’s publication.
Likewise, he shared a video from the ‘José Martí’ International Airport, in Havana, where he was preparing to board a plane to Nicaragua. The video shows how a plainclothes officer checks her passport and questions her about her trip to the Central American territory.
For the activist, the worst thing about the case is that she left the country with only two of the five children that she and her husband have adopted in recent years.
“I had to leave Alain, who, despite having his ticket, the dictatorship told me No! I had to leave him broken, and I broke myself too. I can only say that I am living a nightmare from which I want to wake up. Who doubts that there is a dictatorship in Cuba, because, simply, they have never experienced such shamelessness,” Salcedo added.
In recent months, the activist reported having been a victim of harassment by the Castro authorities, due to the complaints she has made on her social networks in recent years.
These complaints have recently focused on helping dozens of families in poverty. Among her last actions, the activist accompanied to several mothers with sick children who held a protest in front of the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap). On that occasion, Salcedo and the women who came to demonstrate were detained by State Security.