Escrito por Fany Rodríguez
 Havana,
Oct 23 (Prensa Latina) Four Cubans who had illegally
left the country to get to the US with the help of
traffickers said they suffered kidnapping and tortures.
After being deported from Mexico, Kendry Melenilla, 24,
Julio Cesar Urbina Diaz, 25, Jorge Arencibia, 29, and
Yunier Rosado Sosa, 26, all from the Isle of Youth, were
victims of cruelty by human smugglers.
Despite having families, profession, and jobs in Cuba,
and encouraged by US propaganda and the bloody Cuban
Adjustment Act, they started what ended up as a terror
adventure in Cancun, Mexico, where they were held
captive by sinister dealers.
Melenilla had heard about earning "easy money" in the
US, and thought a friend he had there would assume the
cost demanded by the traffickers.
But due to the severe economic crisis in the US, his
friend could not afford it, and even changed his phone
number to avoid further calls. Melenilla was then
beaten, suffered electrical shocks, had the tips of his
ears cut, and was even threatened to be killed in the
hands of drug traffickers.
The 14 people onboard the speed boat, and whose
relatives in the US did not pay the money requested by
the smugglers underwent similar tortures.
For 13 days they were kept in a small room, sleeping on
the floor, only wearing underclothes, and having a small
glass of beans and water. It was a tragedy of different
dramatic tones, until the Mexican army rescued them.
The torturers, of Cuban origin and residing in the US,
were the same who steered the boat for Cancun. They
contacted the victim's relatives by phone so that they
could hear them screaming with pain, to force them pay.
Urbina was the one who, taking advantage of negligence
by their armed captors, could send messages through a
window to a nearby house.
The four young Cubans agreed in their statements that
they knew the meaning of torture for the first time.
They admitted with regret they were attracted by siren's
calls, and the act through which Cubans who illegally
reached US territory are allowed to stay.
At the end of the interview, they said they wanted
everybody knows their tragedy, hoping it helps prevent
other people from suffering something similar. |
