Journalist and family threatened by undercover state agents

In the morning, the attackers showed up at the home of journalist and activist Roberto Rodríguez, saying they were opponents of the municipality of Palma Soriano, Santiago de Cuba province. At that time, the activist, his wife and his 4-month-old daughter were in the house. When they were asked what they wanted, they began to speak in a broken tone and in a loud voice, trying to demoralize the journalist and his family in front of neighbors and passersby, alleging that they were coming to collect some money, and that if he did not pay it they would beat him so badly that he would not even be able to get up and then they would go into the house to take the TV and everything else they found of value, until they believed enough to cover the supposed debt and then they would destroy whatever was left. They also claimed that the activist and his family were not opponents or journalists, but shamelessly cheating on the opposition's money. The whole time they were offending and threatening the activist, so that he would react and they could beat him up. The activist's wife intervened and the individuals reacted by offending her and threatening them again that they had to pay them or else they would come back and set fire to the house and break down the door with stones, as many times as necessary, until they were paid. The two attackers were accompanied by seven other people, two of them were recording everything that was happening on the phone, the other five kept a group at a safe distance, pretending to fix a bicycle. According to the journalist, the next day some people said that the two people who were recording were agents of the State Security Department (DSE) and that of the other five, at least four were police officers of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR), dressed in civilian clothes. Approximately fifteen minutes later a patrol car arrived and led them to a DSE unit. Despite the fact that these agents had identified the attackers, they refused to give them their names so that they could make a formal accusation against them for aggression and threats. Even in front of the authorities, both attackers continued to threaten the journalist, but were never called upon to do so. Later, one of the attackers threatened him again, telling me not to dare call Palma Soriano to clear things up, because if I did, they would find out and would come back as soon as they could and beat him up. By this time another DSE officer who calls himself Ramiro had entered the office, he was referred to as "Mellizo". Upon hearing this last threat, the activist assured them that if he was going to call Palma to clear things up, at that moment Ramiro touched him on the shoulder and told him, supporting the threat, "Look Roberto, take advice and listen to him, so you can avoid more problems, they might come back and you will see them worse," to which the aggressor added, that they would come back next Friday, December 21st to get the money.