UNPACU leader calls international solidarity to «save lives from vulnerable people» in Cuba

Amid the constant harassment of the Political Police, which has threatened to close the block where, in the Altamira cast of the city of Santiago de Cuba, José Daniel Ferrer has called on Sunday to international solidarity to continue with the humanitarian project that provides food to dozens of people every day.

In a message entitled «Called to solidarity to save lives from vulnerable people«, Ferrer invites the Catholic and Evangelical Church to his home, as well as the representatives in Cuba of the European Union, the United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia and Latin American countries with democratic governments, so that they can confirm in situ They come in search of help.

The leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba explained in the message that since its release last January, as part of the negotiation between the regime of Havana and the Vatican, the task was given with his wife, the Dr. Nelva Ortega and several collaborators, «to feed and give basic medical attention to everyone who touched our door.»

«In the midst of arrests, threats and arbitrary confiscation of money, food and kitchen utensils starring the security of the State and the» Revolutionary National Police, the number of people in need of urgent help continued to grow from day to day. Too much for a regime with its hunger policies, «denounced the opponent, considered a prisoner of consciousness by Amnesty International.

Ferrer, who has shared several videos in his social networks as evidence of police harassment against his family and the other members of the humanitarian project, said that since April 1 the situation has intensified.

«They set up a strong block, arbitrary and criminal, to prevent us from obtaining food, coal and firewood to feed these people who survive in extreme poverty. Therefore they have increased the arrests of activists and collaborators, continue to confiscate food, threaten the vendors and transporters to deny us their services, prevent the passage of many people, We give, and threaten them with all kinds of reprisals if they continue to come to our home, «he said.

The intense police operation against the headquarters of UNPACU and Ferrer’s home «lasts 5 days,» he denounced.

The leader of UNPACU recalled in the message that, between March and April 2021, the organization’s headquarters suffered a similar fence that «lasted 26 days and was suspended only after a long hunger strike of half a hundred activists, of the visit of the Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba and other religious leaders, along with the solidarity pronouncements of the United States.»

Ferrer was imprisoned three months later, during the anti -government protests of July 11, 2021, which shook the country.

«In Cuba people are dying due to malnutrition and lack of due attention to the eyes of a world, unfortunately, little supportive with the people who suffer the oppression of the longest and cruel dictatorship of the Western hemisphere,» concluded the opposition leader Santiago.

At the beginning of April, The United States expressed indignation For harassment and repression deployed by the Cuban regime against Ferrer, UNPACU activists and people who receive food and necessities at the headquarters of that organization.

«We support José Daniel while providing vital help to the people of Santiago de Cuba. The Cuban regime must focus on taking care of his people and not repressing it: those responsible will be accounts,» said the Office of Affairs of the Western Hemisphere of the State Department.

Amnesty International He also criticized the harassment against the opponent and his collaborators in a statement in which he stressed that the daily work they do to provide food and health care to dozens of vulnerable people in their locality «is a sample of their civic commitment and courage.»