The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) of Cuba confirmed in a brief note the death of the Cuban diplomat Félix Andrés León Carballo that occurred last Saturday, February 17, without indicating the causes of death.
According to the information that has emerged, the diplomat was found dead in his home in Havana in circumstances that have not been clarified, but that point to an act of violence.
His colleague Marcelo Caballero Torres, Cuban ambassador to Djibouti, suggested in a Facebook post that León Carballo’s death did not occur under normal conditions: “Félix León died… or rather, they killed him. Pacolo, as we also know him (I refuse to talk about you in the past tense) So many years together! and some bastards got in the way of our plans” and “That’s life… sometimes you lose it in the most fucked up and undeserved way.”
Likewise, the wife of the African ambassador Maura Quintero Dipotet expressed in one of the comments of the publication that has already been deleted from Facebook: “I am very sorry. They took brother Paco. Not even justice will calm our immense pain. There can be no impunity for that crime.”
Félix León Carballo, who was the island’s ambassador to Belarus, Ukraine and the Czech Republic, was already retired according to the note issued by MINREX, which was limited to offering condolences and briefly reviewing his diplomatic work in the Europe Directorate and the Center. of Information and Multimedia Services, as well as his work in the foreign service.
“Marce, very sad to lose Paco suddenly and in such a cruel way. Paco, a simple, modest person, with a familiar manner, an excellent companion and diplomat; “very dear husband, father and grandfather,” Moraima Hernandez Palmer wrote to Ambassador Marcelo Caballero on her Facebook wall in a message that can still be seen.
On platform He was assaulted and murdered in his house because the PNR cannot stop the crime wave,” commented one user.
As usual, the news was first known through independent media and unofficial sites that reported the death of the ambassador, a victim of a possible murder, although it has not been possible to determine whether it was as a result of an assault or whether his house was entered to rob and In that event he lost his life.
The deep economic crisis that Cuba is going through has considerably accentuated violence in the streets and public insecurity on the Island, where every day reports of robberies, assaults and violent acts are received that often end with a fatal outcome for the victim, but the The Cuban government refuses to directly address and confront the situation, since among other things it would destroy the myth of a “safe country” favorable to tourism.
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