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The Regime Threatens: “The next one to commit suicide will be you!”
By Cuban Democratic Directorate

Aguada de Pasajeros. July 4, 2007. Bernardo Arévalo Padrón, peaceful activist and member of the Democracy Movement, was threatened on June 29th by a Police official in the city of Aguada de Pasajeros, Cienfuegos. He was denouncing the alleged homicide of Manuel Acosta Larena, also a member of the Democracy Movement.

 

Acosta Larena died after receiving a beating, while under police custody of Lieutenant Carlos Castillo Medina, Major Vladimir Castillo Cecilia of State Security, and Chief Miguel López Santana of the National Revolutionary Police Unit, alias “Miguelito night and day.”. These officials claim that the activist committed suicide by hanging himself with his own pants while in police custody. Acosta Larena was arrested on June 21st for the alleged crime of ‘dangerousness’ after collecting signatures demanding the freedom of Cuban political prisoners and prisoners of conscience and for not cooperating with the State by refusing to pay dues to the Committee for Defense of the Revolution (CDR) since 1989.

 

Arévalo Padrón was on his way to the Post Office “Correos de Cuba”, now controlled by the Information and Communications Ministry, to certify a letter under a Notary Public written by Acosta Larena’s mother to Raúl Castro Ruz, in which she asks Castro that her son’s remains be exhumed.

 

The penitentiary instructor of the Revolutionary Political Police, who threatened Arévalo Padrón, named Sergio García Borges, expressed to the activist in the middle of the street that “if he continued talking trash through enemy radio and agitating the Cuban people, the next one to commit suicide will be you, worm.”

 

Arévalo Padrón answered: “If you are going to kill me like you killed my brother Manuel Acosta Larena, it will be with me shouting in your faces: Down with Fidel Castro!”

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