Cuban mother beg for seeing her jailed son before he died

The mother of the Cuban writer José Gabriel Barrenechea, Zoila Chávez, agonizes at the crossroads, Villa Clara, while her son has been imprisoned for more than six months for participating in the popular protests of that town, the activist Carolina Barrero denounced this Saturday, who shared in networks the plea of ​​the woman.

«His only wish before he dies is to see his son imprison again for the tyranny of the Castro. We do not allow it to go unpacking such injustice. Let’s not look aside, let’s not be accomplices with silence,» Barrero said in a live broadcast In the social network.

Barrenechea was arrested on November 8, 2024 and transferred days later to provisional prison in the La Pírese prison, of Santa Clara, accused of public disorders, and where he is still waiting for a date of trial.

With The Writer’s imprisonmenthis mother was alone, in a delicate state of health. «She is a lady who is in her final agony, an extremely sick lady who, in the last days and the product of pain so great, is seeing her capacity diminished,» he warned on Facebook Barrero.

Last week, the Independent Cubanet portal published in its social networks videos in which Zoila Chávez explains the desperate situation in which she is and cries out to see her son before death.

«In this Calvary, in that terror that I carry inside my heart, please, please look, I am Zoila Chávez Pérez, the mother of José Gabriel Barrenechea and Chávez. Five months ago that I live alone, I goate. leave dawn, because all I want is, although
Be a month, be with my son before I die, «pray the woman in one of the videos.

Visibly moved, Barrero questioned the indifference of the cultural institutions of the island in the heart of the writer’s mother.

«I have been practically unable to sleep for several days because the only thing I hear is Zoila’s voice, Zoila’s song. In one of the directs, videos,
that Cubanet published about her, she even singing, «he said.

The old woman, whose message shared Barrero, explained that she is operated on the
Bladder and suffer from circulatory problems, but what hits her most is the loneliness and absence of her child.

«I can’t suffer anymore. This heart cannot. I lost my son older to 36, then with the Covid I lost my 65 -year -old old man, and now look in the case I am. I can no longer. Why do they make me
suffer like this? «He lamented.

In A letter from prisonlast December, Barrenechea accused his captors of locking him to silence his questions to the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel.

«I participated in the night of November 7 at the crossroads, where a small massive and peaceful spontaneous demonstration was made, which had no other intention to claim the replacement of the electric current after 45 hours without it, and a week when we barely have it for 10, 12 hours in total, in short intervals of 2 or 3 hours,» he explained in the same.

Authors, journalists, artists, activists and politicians of Cuba and other countries have demanded the liberation of the intellectual to the Cuban regime.