From our Bureau of Great Moments in Socialist Diplomacy with some assistance from our Bureau of Rampant Chusmería and Hideous Sculptures
A Castronoid diplomat who attacked Cuban protesters and an Angolan-Portuguese woman who was filming them last July in Santiago de Compostela has been recalled to Castrogonia.
She was supposed to stand trial last week, but a strike by Spanish court employees led to a postponement. Cuban exiles led by Avana de la Torre showed up outside the court anyway to launch a protest against Cuba’s dictatorship.
So, this is the second time in less than a week when some Castronoid has avoided an overseas encounter with exiled protesters. First, Mariela Castro in Milan, and now this diplomat in Spain. So true to form. Cowardice is a natural trait of most bullies, especially of the Castronoid variety.
By the way, the José Martí monument where this assault occurred last summer has an interesting history. It’s the work of Cuban sculptor Jose Delarra and it was erected in Santiago de Compostela in 1995 by Castro, Inc.’s Ministry of Culture, as a tribute of sorts to the half million or so Gallegos who migrated to Cuba when it was more prosperous than Spain (including Fifo’s father). It was stolen a few years later, but was eventually recovered and re-installed in 2017, to honor Fidel Castro on the first anniversary of his death. Whether Castro, Inc. ever contributed a penny to this monumental charade is unknown. Given its modus operandi, it is highly likely that Spain has covered all expenses from the start.
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Loosely translated from Marti Noticias
A group of Cuban activists demonstrated last Thursday in front of the Santiago de Compostela court in Galicia against “the Cuban regime and its lack of ethical principles” and demanded the release of political prisoners.
This Thursday the trial was to be held against the Cuban consul in Galicia, Yahima Martínez Millán, accused of an alleged assault on the Portuguese citizen Vania Coelho Da Cunha Guimaraes and the Cuban human rights defender Avana de la Torre, who denounced the incident, which occurred on July 26, 2022, to the Spanish Police.
“On July 26, 2022, several activists brought flowers and shouted Patria y Vida y Libertad for the political prisoners at a bust of Martí, in Santiago de Compostela, the same one where officials from the Castro mission were planning to hold an act. for the anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Bayamo barracks. The Castro diplomats seized and broke the phone we were filming with and inflicted injuries on us,” Avana de la Torre explained in a conversation with Radio Televisión Martí.
The trial against the Cuban official was suspended this Thursday because the employees of the Galician Justice institution were on strike, but the activists took advantage of their trip to display a banner with printed photos of senior Cuban leaders, describing them as “murderers”, as well as images that illustrate the repression of the 2021 protests and the deterioration of the economic, political and social situation in the country.
“When they summoned Yahima Martínez Millán to the Consulate here, they announced that there is a new consul and that the previous one returned to Cuba in November. In other words, they took Martínez out before completing her term in office, ”she indicated.
It is unknown if the replacement of the diplomat is related to the judicial process underway against her. If she, Martínez Millán, is summoned, she must appear in court or declare herself in absentia, according to Spanish law.