Luis Enrique Santos Caballero, member of the Central Opposition Coalition, has been on hunger strike in the Vidal Park of Santa Clara, Villa Clara, along with his wife Ramona Maday Garcia, for more than a week, demanding that the regime give him a home after he was forcefully evicted during the month of April.
Santos, a former dissident prisoner, came out of jail to find that his father had passed away and that he had no home. He spent various months staying at the homes of friends and fellow activists until he decided to occupy an abandoned establishment in the city of Santa Clara. Police forces violently evicted him and his wife from the place, and the activist took shelter in the house of another dissident. Eventually, he decided to demand the regime to give him the opportunity to have a house where he could establish himself and establish a family.
This Wednesday, May 29th, Jorge Luis Garcia Perez ‘Antunez’, former political prisoner and general secretary of the Orlando Zapata Tamayo National Resistance Front, published an audio in his YouTube account detailing that another 4 activists had joined Luis Enrique’s hunger strike. The striker shifted his protest to the home of Antunez, where the other dissidents also reside. They are Arnaldo Perez, Fernando Vazquez, Yunier Santana, and most recently, Damaris Moya Portieles. The latter is the president of the Central Opposition Coalition.
Although the life of each of these hunger-strikers is in danger, Antunez explains that the most worrying situation is that of Luis Enrique Santos Caballero who only has one kidney. He lost his other kidney in prison after he was severely beat by a number of guards. Santos Caballero has also seen his health affected in the last couple of days after sleeping under rain and wind in a public park for more than a week.
“Luis Enrique Santos is on the verge of losing his life for demanding something so basic, so elementary, which is having a home”, declares Antunez in the audio, “he is a man who truly looks like a cadaver…he is suffering the effects of a weakened physical state, and the lack of one kidney. At any given moment, a fatal outcome may take place”.
Antunez called on the international community, especially people who have Twitter accounts and who run blogs about Cuba, to keep informing about the situation of Luis Enrique Santos Caballero, an activist who is willing to give his life so that at least his wife could have a decent home.
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Jorge Luis García Pérez ‘Antúnez’ – Móvil: +52-731-656 / Twitter: @antunezcuba
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