Activist arrested for publicly criticizing the government

At two o'clock in the afternoon on May 14, the activist Misael Domínguez Batista was the victim of detention and repressive acts by the mayor and head of the sector, Brian Torres Urjelles. This officer was accompanied by three members of the special brigades plus the head of surveillance of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) in that area, Mr. Osvaldo Sala Cantillo, and the president of the aforementioned surveillance body, Ms. María Antonia Pérez Calderín. The referred sector chief detained the activist and took him to the unit of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) where he remained for more than 2 hours under the interrogation of the commander and chief of confrontation Alfredo Oliveros.This officer threatened the activist with imprisonment if he continued to carry out counter-revolutionary activities in Baracoa. He also told the activist that they knew he was speaking ill of the government, telling the people in the area where he lives that the government was not doing anything for the people, that the only thing it was giving them was crumbs, that the people had to kill themselves, in the stores that collect foreign currency, in order to buy an oil bottle. The activist defended the veracity of his allegations and told him that if it wasn't true why the government had brought in many members of the special troops with dogs to scare the population. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)