The Cuban government released the information in a video where it revealed that Dr. Carlos Leonardo Vázquez González was the spy “Fernando”.
Cuba sent one of its undercover agents to Spain to gather information on the playwright Yunior García, promoter of the opposition march on November 15, and other opponents participating in an event sponsored by the Madrid branch of the American University of San Luis in 2019.
The Cuban government released the information in a video where it revealed that Dr. Carlos Leonardo Vázquez González was the spy “Fernando” from the Department of State Security, the country’s intelligence and counterintelligence body.
“Fernando” revealed his identity to denounce the participation of Yunior García Aguilera in the aforementioned event and thus “dismantle” (denounce) the alleged subversive purposes of the peaceful march called by the leader of the dissident online group Archipiélago and other young people for the 15th of November.
The Cuban spy attended the 2019 meeting in Madrid, which, according to the authorities, addressed the role of the Armed Forces in a transition process on the island, with the assistance of, among others, the former president of the Spanish Government Felipe González (1982-1996) .
The Cuban agent argues in the video that “Yunior is seeking a confrontation with the Armed Forces and the Minint -Ministry of the Interior-” and assures that “it is not so transparent and its actions are not isolated or spontaneous.”
It is not the first time that the government has publicly shown García’s private telephone conversations or linked him to “elements of the Miami anti-Cuban mafia” and US legislators to discredit the initiative to march peacefully demanding political rights.
The rights to strike and demonstrate are rarely contemplated outside state institutions and an act of opposition to the Government has never been authorized in Cuba.
March date is maintained despite threats
The members of the Archipiélago virtual platform maintain the call to march in Havana and other cities in the country on November 15, despite the government’s prohibition that considers it “illegal” and responds to a “change of regime.”
Threats from the Prosecutor’s Office also weigh on them, which has warned of “legal consequences” if they maintain their plan, something that has generated strong rejection among opposition activists and in the networks.
They could commit crimes such as disobedience, illegal demonstrations and instigation to commit a crime, and others, punishable by economic sanctions and deprivation of liberty from three months to one year.
García Aguilera, one of those arrested on July 11 when massive anti-government protests broke out, insists on his right “and that of all Cubans to demonstrate peacefully and civically.”
The march demands respect for rights, the release of political prisoners and the solution of differences through democratic and peaceful means.
It demands the exercise of the rights of assembly, demonstration and association for lawful and peaceful purposes established in the Constitution.
However, the authorities interpret that a constitutional right “cannot be exercised against the other rights, guarantees and essential postulates of the Constitution itself, which determines the illegal nature of the march.” (I)
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