havana/José Antonio Cue escaped by sea from Cuba almost two years ago to avoid prison. Just like the channel reported Telemundo 51, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crime of “sabotage” and two more for “public disorder” as a result of his participation in the July 11 demonstrations in Cárdenas, Matanzas.
According to the database prepared by Cubalex and Justicia 11J, Cue was also sentenced “individually and separately” to compensate “almost a million and a half pesos” for stolen goods and damaged, fixed assets, and damaged and lost machinery, broken pump and glass. , as well as hired labor” to the Cimex state store in Cárdenas.
Born in 1993 and with a son, Cue started with other Cubans on a country raft they built with 55-gallon tanks.
Born in 1993 and with a son, Cue started with other Cubans, who did not give other details, on a rural raft that they built with 55-gallon tanks. “It was, jump into the sea or go to jail,” said the Cuban, who received an I-220B form when he arrived in the United States and is now facing a deportation order, which can to execute at any time.
“If I return, I will lose my freedom,” said this Cuban who says that he feels free in the United States and that he was able to establish himself. In Cue, his escape from the Island is very present. “Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night thinking I’m still fleeing to Cuba,” he said.
And he does not want to return to prison, where he spent, he says, four months before his trial was held. “These prisons are the most disgusting thing you will see. There is no water, the cockroaches crawl on your body. It smells like urine. It’s a locked room, no ventilation, damp, that’s the most hellish thing,” he said.
Regarding the demonstrations, he said “they started hearing rumors that there were demonstrations on Real Street, in Cárdenas. I see that, the people showing up, unleashed like never before.”
Cue decided to join the protests, which he said were brutally suppressed by the police, because “they had gotten out of hand.” In front of the crowd, he said, “the police were afraid.”
Cue decided to join the protests, which he said were brutally suppressed by the police, because “they had gotten out of hand.”
Immigration attorney Eduardo Soto, who took Cue’s case, is working to overturn the deportation order. Although this rafter has presented documents proving that he fled Cuba because of repression, he is afraid.
Recently, in August of last year, the deportation of Cuba Vivian Limonta was recorded International Airport told her.
Between January and August 29, Cuba has received 1,046 traders from different countries. In April 2023, deportation flights began, especially for people who were considered “inadmissible” after being detained at the US border with Mexico.
According to a recent report from the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in June there were 17,563 Cubans who arrived in the United States, the smallest number in a calendar month of the current fiscal year 2024 that began last October.
