Detienen al periodista Yoelexis Acosta

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Detienen al periodista Yoelexis Acosta, quien se dedica a denunciar la situación crítica en que viven los campesinos en Pinar del Río. Es la tercera vez que Acosta es detenido e interrogado por la Seguridad del Estado en un mes.

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00:00 I am Yoyo Lecia Costa, a member of the Cuban Democratic Independence Movement.

00:04 Yesterday I was arrested at 9.10am. I was going to Juan Antonio Madrazo Luna's house.

00:12 He is a member of the Afro-descendant group "Human Rights".

00:15 I was arrested in the palace, in the control point of the palace,

00:20 where I was arrested and they took me away and they decommissioned me.

00:23 I was carrying half a sack of fertilizer because he has a little plant.

00:26 He is a fan of plants and he was carrying a handful of fertilizer, a handful of bonito and some bananas.

00:32 They decommissioned me and I was detained and locked up.

00:36 They put me in a sector next to the station, which is like a bus station in the palaces.

00:43 In a sector there. I was detained there until 5am today, when they released me.

00:49 Alejandro and other members of the State Security were there.

00:53 They kept me there all night.

00:56 I told them that they were going to put me in jail for 10 years or 10,000 pesos of fine.

01:02 For the handful of fertilizer.

01:04 The handful of fertilizer is from my family, who have 4 or 5 sheep that are raised on tobacco in San Juan and Martínez.

01:11 And that is a gift that I earn.

01:13 Thanks to those sheep and those things, they give me a handful of fertilizer, of this, of food,

01:19 of living, of working for DN Cuba and as a member of human rights here.

01:24 And another thing, that fertilizer is more than paid and re-paid.

01:28 They charge you some MLCs that they pay, which is money that is only valid here in Cuba.

01:34 And they don't even see it.

01:37 And it is paid for in two places, which is quite expensive, that they charge you.

01:41 They charge you Cuban money and they charge you like 80 or 100 MLCs.

01:45 And that is what my uncle gave me to solve it to Madraso, who is my boss.

01:49 I belong to the group of Afro-descendants here in Cuba.

01:55 And what I have to say, they released me this morning at 5 in the morning.

02:00 And they had me arrested and they took away the little sheep and everything that I gave to Madraso.

02:04 And the bananas and the fertilizer.

02:06 And they wanted to put me in a fine.

02:07 And that's what I told him, that my uncle was in charge of that.

02:10 And it is true that the fertilizer, I was not the owner, but it was my uncle's, that there was no problem with that.

02:21 I told him, let's see, as I understand, in the last 15 to 20 days you have been arrested three times.

02:27 Yes, yes.

02:28 You have been arrested three times.

02:29 Yes.

02:30 Why are you being arrested and what do they tell you?

02:32 Well, they arrest me, first they arrest me for the work I am doing with ADN Cuba.

02:39 And now that I am working with Juan Antonio Madraso Luna.

02:43 And for the work I am doing in the defense of the peasants, of the peasant complaints.

02:48 I am doing work with ADN Cuba.

02:51 And that's why they constantly have my foot up and up.

02:56 And that they are going to disappear me and that they are going to put me 10 years.

02:59 And I already tell you, I have a fear with respect to my people and my family.

03:04 And not to mention that.

03:05 They don't get my foot out of the air.

03:07 That means that in less than a month you have been arrested three times.

03:11 To keep you under interrogation with more than 10, 12 hours under interrogation.

03:15 Yes, yes.

03:16 Without any justification because you are not a bandit, you are a peasant.

03:19 There it is.

03:20 That you dedicate yourself to the land and you have had no problem with anyone at all.

03:23 With no one.

03:24 Excuse me, they took my land to help Rafael Bueno, who was married to my cousin, who is called Ali.

03:30 14 years ago.

03:32 And to help him financially, I had him working for a week at my house, it was the State Security, the Francisco Blanco cooperative.

03:38 There in Santa Damiana, San Juan and Martín.

03:40 And they went and took my land.

03:42 A land that I had in subsidy.

03:44 And they took it and they went to help an independent journalist, Rafael Bueno Ramírez.

03:49 And they went up and took me.

03:51 And from there to here, to what? A carnival.

03:53 Well, this has been a report by Yolensi Acosta, a member of the CIS.

03:59 And a reporter of ADN Cuba.

04:02 We leave you a hug here.

04:05 And nothing, homeland and freedom.

04:08 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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