The independent journalist Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho, a collaborator of the digital publication ADNCuba, received threats this Monday from a false Facebook profile and this is not the first time that has happened to him, he told Radio Martí.
“It happened yesterday (Monday, August 23) around eleven at night. Raúl, my partner, is the one who receives the request for a message by Messenger from this profile called ‘Lula Méndez’, a profile created 34 minutes ago at that time, because we entered the profile and reviewed and, indeed, it had been created only 34 minutes, I even had only one friend ”, explained the communicator.
Valdés Cocho pointed out that the profile was created with the intention of threatening, since the message left to his sentimental partner, Raúl Soublet, said “to take care of himself, him and me, and that he had also written to me on Messenger”.
The user under the profile of ‘Lula Méndez’ threatened the ADNCuba journalist with “exposing some (alleged) infidelities” committed by Valdés Cocho and, in addition, asked him to “tell Raúl to take care of himself, and not to go with headphones for the public highway, because it could have an accident ”.
“They are short and cowardly, so handsome that they make themselves and have to hide behind a false profile, cowards,” the Cuban lawyer residing in the United States, Laritza Diversent, commented in a post by Valdés Cocho with the complaint, whose mother was also threatened by State Security.
Valdés Cocho assured that this is the fifth threat he has received in less than six months. “In the next one, they are going to see what Cuba has inside!” He warned.
The journalist recalled that in the previous threat they were “quite incisive”, as they warned him that “they knew that I was buying pizzas in a private cafeteria, that pizza could bring ‘something’ that could cause me some kind of illness”.
This type of threat is already “common on the part of these people” who, according to Valdés Cocho, “are acolytes or agents of the Cuban State Security.”
(With a report by Ivette Pacheco for Radio Martí)
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