Antonio Rodiles Arrives in Miami After Being Unable to Leave Cuba for 8 Months

Antonio Rodiles Arrives in Miami After Being Unable to Leave Cuba for 8
Months / 14ymedio
Posted on August 5, 2015

14ymedio, 4 August 2015 – The director of the alternative project Estado
de Sats, Antonio Rodiles, arrived in Miami this Monday after 8 months
during which the Government prevented his leaving the island. Hours
earlier he had learned that the authorities would finally allow him to
renew his passport, along with the leader of the Ladies in White, Berta
Solar, and Jorge Luis Garcia Perez known as Antunez. The three traveled
to the United States to attend a meeting with Cuban exiles.

"We came to talk with friends, with the exile, to try to create the
greatest possible solidarity at this time. I believe there is a lot of
concern for the reality we are living in and we have to speak with
everyone and coordinate with each other inside and outside the country,"
Rodiles told MartiNoticias on his arrival in Miami.

The opponent, who has been unable to leave Cuba for months, has
experienced acts of repudiation and episodes of violence that required
him to have emergency surgery after suffering a fracture of the nasal
septum and a perforated ear drum in an act of violence.

"There has been a great increase in repression and especially in the
violence," he stated in front of the cameras. A statement that was
affirmed by Antunez. "It's noteworthy that around the corner from the
new US embassy in Cuba they are savagely repressing the Ladies in White
movement and the opposition. They are emboldened, bringing in mobs on
buses, trucks full of military repressors, which shows they have a
radical and open opposition to us."

Berta Soler said that the group does not oppose negotiations between the
United States and Cuba but they want them to be "conditioned" on
decreasing the repression against those who peacefully defend human rights.

Antunez added that their trip to the Miami comes at a time when Cuba's
destiny is in play "with Kerry's visit to Havana, the preparations for
the Pope's visit, and the regime trying to manage its fraud change."
According to Rodiles, there is no such change, given nothing has
changed with regards to human rights, nor are there any
changes economically.

The activists will return to Cuba before John Kerry visits the island on
Friday, August 14.

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