José Daniel Ferrer sends a strong message to Díaz-Canel
The Cuban opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrerwho was released last weekIn the last few hours, he sent a message to Miguel Díaz-Canel, whom he urged to hold “free and plural elections” in the country and begin a process of “national reconciliation.”
“It’s time to stop hurting #Cubato put an end to State terrorism against the people, to ensure that millions of Cubans suffer all types of deprivations and wish to emigrate to other landsthat everyone who dissents be persecuted and imprisoned in concentration camps, Nazi style,” Ferrer wrote at the beginning of a message spread on his networks.
“It is time for Cuba to become a free and democratic nation, friendly to the West, to begin to rebuild our beautiful homeland, to leave hunger and misery behind,” he added.
Next, José Daniel Ferrer called for “free and plural elections,” which would allow the Cuban people to recover their “sovereignty.”
“It is time to begin an honest process of national reconciliation where no Cuban is excluded. Nothing is more dangerous than clinging to power and continuing to prolong the suffering of an entire people. Do what reason and justice demand”he added.
Ferrer, leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) who remained imprisoned for the last three and a half years in Santiago de Cuba, advised the president to “not wait until it is too late.”
“Time is running out and the patience of a desperate people has limits. I do not hold a grudge against him for the torture that his regime has inflicted on me in his terrible prisons, I do not wish him any harm, but I will never remain silent in the face of the evil that his regime causes to our nation and I will continue fighting for the rights and well-being of all Cubans. , aware that I can return to their prisons and that they can even kill me,” he concluded.
In a previous message, this January 20, Ferrer launched an energetic call for the unity of all Cubansboth within the island and in the diaspora, to confront the regime and fight for freedom, democracy and human rights in the nation.
Through a message spread on social networks, Ferrer expressed his determination to continue the fight against tyranny after his return to the public arena, after three and a half years of unjust and cruel imprisonment.
“It is time for Cubans within and in the diaspora to unite on a single front and make clear to the world our firm purpose that we are willing to conquer our freedom and make Cuba a just and prosperous nation that is an ally of the West,” wrote.
Ferrer García, who He was released last Thursday, in his first statements after leaving prison he had already sent a message of firmness and hope to Cubans, urging them to lose their fear because “the oppressor is increasingly afraid.”
“Do not be afraid to fight for a free, fair, prosperous Cuba, do not be afraid to work for a better future for all Cubans, so that we do not have to go in search of freedom and better living conditions to other lands”he said on that occasion, in statements to Martí News.
“Do not be afraid to confront the oppressor, because the oppressor is increasingly more afraid, increasingly weaker and To the extent that we look at it squarely, that we face it with dignity, decorum, and courage, the shorter its existence will be, the less time it will have left in power.fewer abuses they will be able to commit and fewer abuses they will be able to continue carrying out,” he added.
Ferrer concluded that together “we can make Cuba change, we can put an end to oppression, misery, hunger, widespread poverty and give Cuba and the Cuban people what we should always have: a happy Cuba, a Cuba free, a just Cuba, a prosperous Cuba”.
Considered a “prisoner of conscience” by Amnesty International (AI), José Daniel Ferrer was imprisoned on July 12, 2021, within the framework of the anti-government protests of 11J.
Leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), Ferrer – who is currently 54 years old – For many years he has been a firm opponent of the Cuban communist regime, which has earned him multiple imprisonments, persecutions and reprisals for his political activities.