Activist Diasniurka Salcedo Verdecia denounced this Friday that he has received threats, from agents of the regime, to snatch away five children that he has in his care. The woman, who on November 24 reported the protest of a group of mothers in front of the Ministry of Public Health, took in several minors, children of imprisoned, deceased or abusive parents, and is in the middle of a process to obtain their legal custody.
In her publication, Salcedo Verdecia explains that after launching a discredit campaign against her on social networks, representatives of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution and several social workers showed up at her home. The objective of the visit, he assured, was to let him know that he was a “bad influence” on the minors and that he runs the risk of stopping the procedures to grant him custody of the children, whom Salcedo defines at all times as his “children.” “.
“I don’t care about the Family Code, my children are happy and don’t lie, they know freedom and they have plenty of love, something that you don’t know. (…) I’m not going to stop supporting mothers because we don’t commit crimes any, much less silence in exchange for my children. Precisely my fight is for their future,” said the activist.
Salcedo has described on several occasions the cumbersome legal process he faces to obtain custody of the five minors.
Salcedo has described on several occasions the cumbersome legal process he faces to gain custody of the five minors, who come from vulnerable contexts about which, generally, “the regime does not comment.”
The activist added that the children have been living with her for between three and four years and that in the visitthe agents told him that the oral hearing, in which he was to appear on the situation of the children, is paused.
Salcedo transmitted through his social networks the protests of several mothers in front of the Ministry of Public Health. As a result of her support for her mothers, who were demanding better quality care for her children, both she and her husband, who was arrested that day, were imposed a precautionary measure.
After the protest, several mothers reported that the authorities offered their children medical care to “shush them.” However, in most cases, the solution was not up to the task of children’s conditions, which require long-term treatments.
Some of the parents, residents of Pinar del Río and Mayabeque, were detained before being able to reach the corner of 23rd and N, in Vedado, to demonstrate, according to what Salcedo herself reported that day.
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