From the hand of Castro, notorious repressor amounts to the general of the Army Corps

In the hands of the General Nonagenarian Raúl Castro, Interior Minister, Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, indicated as one of the greatest responsible for repression in Cuba, was promoted on Friday to the General of the Army Corps.

The 94-year-old Cuban ruler presided over the appointment in a ceremony in which his designated successor, Miguel Díaz-Canel and numerous officers was also.

Álvarez Casas, who heads the Ministry of Interior since the end of 2020, has been recognized as a «violent» repressorin the database of the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba.

He is accused, among several crimes, those of committing persecution for political reasons and attacking the rights of meeting, demonstration, association, complaint and petition. It is also indicated by its direct role in the bloody repression of the protesters of the protests of July 11, 2021.

In January of that same year Álvarez Casas became the first official of the Cuban regime sanctioned by the United States, by virtue of Magnitsky Law on human rights responsibility.

On that occasion, the then Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said that the designation of the Minint and Álvarez Casas under the Global Magnitsky Sanctions program alerts about «his complicity in the abuses against the Cuban people.»