Dissident Cuban women speak about physical abuse they and other women have received from Cuban dictatorship

From our Bureau of Socialist Women’s Rights

Castro, Inc. is an equal-opportunity abuser of human rights. Simply put, they will abuse you in myriad ways no matter who you are, or how many times they have abused you previously.

Their treatment of women is especially horrific. Some Cuban women who have been repeatedly abused spoke up yesterday on the International Day of Human Rights Defenders.

Let’s see if the Marx Sisters stand in solidarity with these victims of socialism. Yeah. Sure

Loosely translated from Marti Noticias

This November 29 is the International Day of Human Rights Defenders. From Cuba, three women who have dedicated their lives to ensuring these fundamental rights spoke with Radio Martí.

With more than thirty years of struggle for the conquest of human rights on the island, the economist Marta Beatriz Roque, a former political prisoner of the 2003 Black Spring in Cuba, is a faithful exponent of the female presence in opposition to a regime that It has systematically violated the basic rights of the population for more than 62 years.

However, Roque considers “not being a good example because”, she explained, “when you have been doing this for so long, a little that you even get used to mistreatment, bad situations, problems”.

According to Marta Beatriz, in conversations with friends she has come to confess that her body “is like Frankenstein’s, it is broken; I have broken bones all over the place, from the beatings, from the mistreatment of the dictatorship towards me ”.

“It is a very difficult situation,” claimed the Cuban economist, “it is an extremely difficult life that is made for a person like me and like so many women in the opposition who dedicate their lives precisely to defending rights human beings and to defend democracy ”, assured Roque.

Thais Mailén Franco belongs to the new generations of women who have put the needs and common interest above their personal safety. Arrested during the April 30 protest that took place on Obispo Street in Old Havana, Franco spent several months in jail and, at the moment, she is under house arrest awaiting trial.

From her jail house, Thais Mailén Franco extends a hug and congratulations beyond the Cuban shores “To all those women, whether Cuban or not, to all those brave patriots who, despite the violence caused by totalitarian regimes, They are always raising their voices and demanding freedom, ” Franco expressed.

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