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Last night, Leonardo Romero Negr\u00edn was arrested with extreme VIOLENCE and REMAINS IN CUSTODY<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His family was told they would be given an update at 8:30 a.m., but now it turns out his case file is missing and they\u2019ll be told at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leo was arrested in his neighborhood in Centro Habana for doing what every decent Cuban should be doing right now: participating in a cacerolazo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pot-banging protests and demonstrations in Cuba are legitimate (they always are, but even more so in Cuba).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How can you force a change in the economic system on a people who are sick, worn out, hungry, and without electricity\u2014a people you didn\u2019t give a damn about in your new measures because they don\u2019t address political changes or basic rights? How can you do that when your people can\u2019t even protest?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m posting a photo from July 11 and highlighting the violence because I\u2019ve had enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Political prisoners aren\u2019t the personal punching bags of state security or the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leonardo Romero has been systematically detained by you. Alongside him, I experienced constant political pressure in Cuba. You\u2019ve attacked us in the most personal ways, and enough is enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know that as soon as you have a distraction and no one is paying attention, you take the opportunity to lock up the troublemakers for good, but it won\u2019t be that way with Leonardo. I am the guarantee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I will defend Leo and the political prisoners always. I will do so in every academic and political forum where I speak; I will do so in every journalistic piece I write; and I will do so before international organizations if necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If Leo isn\u2019t released immediately\u2014today\u2014and if he\u2019s charged on some trumped-up charge, I\u2019ll personally take it upon myself to tell this story over and over again with the only weapons I have against injustice: my pen, my voice, and my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And just like me, every single person whose life Leo\u2019s kindness has touched will do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Free Leonardo Romero now. And if you don\u2019t, you\u2019ll end up with another hero behind bars\u2014because that\u2019s exactly what he is. Leonardo Romero Negr\u00edn is a silent hero: the hero of the people in his neighborhood, of his students, of everyone who knows him\u2014and especially mine<\/p>\n\n\n\n
P.S.: I\u2019m bringing up a painful photo that, for mental health reasons, we had decided not to revisit\u2014the photo of Leo\u2019s arrest on June 11. I\u2019m doing this so you\u2019ll remember how severely Leo Romero has been punished, and that we haven\u2019t forgotten<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last night, Leonardo Romero Negr\u00edn was arrested with extreme VIOLENCE and REMAINS IN CUSTODY<\/p>\n
His family was told they would be given an update at 8:30 a.m., but now it turns out his case file is missing and they\u2019ll be told at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n
Leo was arrested in his neighborhood in Centro Habana for doing what every decent Cuban should be doing right now: participating in a cacerolazo.<\/p>\n
Pot-banging protests and demonstrations in Cuba are legitimate (they always are, but even more so in Cuba).<\/p>\n
How can you force a change in the economic system on a people who are sick, worn out, hungry, and without electricity\u2014a people you didn\u2019t give a damn about in your new measures because they don\u2019t address political changes or basic rights? How can you do that when your people can\u2019t even protest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":76205,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"litci_post_political_author":"Lisbeth Moya","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1182],"tags":[1183,6815,6817,3592,6816],"class_list":["post-76204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba","tag-cuba-3","tag-leonardo","tag-negrin","tag-repression","tag-romero"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/litci.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-07-02-110015.png?fit=356%2C377&ssl=1","fimg_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/litci.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Captura-de-pantalla-2026-07-02-110015.png?fit=356%2C377&ssl=1","categories_names":["Cuba"],"author_info":{"name":"Carlos S.","pic":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fdf3a2076204dbf848fa7838fc9e2787f3317262207b35e333f31316e39fce9c?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"political_author":"Lisbeth Moya","tagline":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76206,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76204\/revisions\/76206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}