Cuban intellectuals and college professors Alina Barbara Lopez and Jenny Pantoja were on their way to Havana to participate in a peaceful protest when they were arrested by State Security agents. The two older women were later released, but not before they both received beatings at the hands of the communist dictatorship’s thugs.
Cuban professor Alina Bárbara López Hernández and her colleague Jenny Pantoja Torres were released on the night of Tuesday, June 18, from a police station where they had been held since the morning. They were detained by State Security while on their way to Havana for a peaceful demonstration.
The news was shared by Cecilia Borroto López, the daughter of Alina Bárbara, who explained on Facebook that López Hernández and Pantoja Torres were heading to the hospital immediately after leaving the police station.
“They will recount the new humiliations and injustices they suffered,” said Cecilia Borroto López.
She also condemned the use of brute force against her mother and Pantoja Torres, describing the officers as “miserable indoctrinated people” who hate those who think for themselves.
“As you can see, Alina Bárbara López Hernández and Jenny Pantoja Torres are now out of the police station and on their way to the hospital. The thugs always use brute force because they hate those who have a mind of their own, unlike them, the miserable indoctrinated ones,” she said.
“You have to be very sick in mind and soul to beat two elderly and unarmed women. All the contempt of honest people falls upon you and your actions. Keep exposing your rotten faces under the mask of paternalism. We are not fools, and every day more people are aware of your disgrace,” she added.
This is truly the rotten face of socialism, where the State finds it necessary and justifiable to beat up two older women simply for thinking differently and speaking their minds.
And the usual suspects? Same as usual: not interested.