Ienelis Delgado Cué had been at Cuba’s Granja 5 camp for almost a year, without any formal charges against her.
14ymedio, Madrid, April 2, 2026 — Dissident Ienelis Delgado Cué, known as Mambisa Agramontina on her social media profiles, has been released after spending nearly a year in pretrial detention in Camagüey. The 37-year-old activist herself recorded a video, released this Thursday by the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights, in which she recounts from her home that yesterday, around two or three in the afternoon, she was “released under a change of measures, from house arrest to precautionary detention.”
She says she is accused of “other acts against the security of the State,” which include “receiving packages from counterrevolutionary organizations and disseminating reports from prisoners who call me to denounce human rights violations committed in prison.” She continues, “No evidence has been found against me.” And she concludes: “I am still awaiting trial.”
Delgado Cué was being held at the Granja 5 camp, without any formal charges having been filed against her. Last January, she went on a hunger strike to protest being denied a visit from her mother, former political prisoner Leticia Cué.
This was not the first time the opposition member had taken similar action. She had also been on a hunger strike for 12 days, the same amount of time she spent in a police station after being violently arrested on April 24, 2025. “They arbitrarily arrested me at my home, violating all my rights, without giving me a search warrant,” she denounced at the time. According to her own account, the political police arrested her for receiving a “personal package” that someone had sent to another opposition member. “They have me detained because they say I receive packages from counterrevolutionary organizations,” the dissident stated, adding that the package was sealed and she did not know its contents: “I don’t know what’s in it.”
“The Government made it very clear, itis a substitute for a sentence and she was in pretrial detention, she doesn’t have a sentence.”
In 2023, she spent nine months in prison for contempt of court after being arrested for a peaceful act: posting photos of herself wrapped in the Cuban flag. The activist carried out this action to demonstrate her solidarity with the artist and political prisoner Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara (sentenced to five years in prison in 2022), who, in 2019, led the #LaBanderaEsDeTodos (The Flag Belongs to Everyone) campaign, weeks after a law on symbols came into effect that strictly regulates their use. She was also sent to the Kilo 5 women’s prison, although she was later released from a labor camp known as El Anoncillo, where she had been transferred.
Javier Larrondo, president of Prisoners Defenders, confirms Delgado Cué’s release, but clarifies to 14ymedio that she is not among the 51 prisoners the regime pledged to release under an agreement with the Vatican. He explains: “The government made it very clear; this is a sentence substitute, and she was in pretrial detention, not sentenced. They changed her pretrial detention status, as happens every month to many prisoners.”
This Wednesday, the Madrid-based NGO confirmed 26 releases under this agreement, the latest being that of Renán Julio Vilches Wong, “with his sentences intact, under a de facto prison-house arrest regime.” Vilches Wong had a six-year sentence “for speaking ill of the leaders of the Communist Party.”
In a message posted on their social media, they lamented that of the announced releases, 25 remain outstanding. “We are monitoring the regime and auditing its processes to ensure that all those promised to the Catholic Church are released,” they stated, reiterating their demand for the liberation of all political prisoners on the island.
In addition to Renán Julio Vilches Wong, 37, sentenced to six years and held in the San José de las Lajas forced labor prison in Mayabeque, the following have been released from prison, although their sentences have not been revoked:
1. Ibrahín Ariel González Hodelin.
2. Ariel Pérez Montesino.
4. Ronald García Sánchez.
5. Adael Jesús Leyva Diaz.
6. Oscar Bárbaro Bravo Cruzata.
7. José Luis Sánchez Tito.
8. Roberto Ferrer Gener.
9. Deyvis Javier Torres Acosta.
10. Yussuan Villalba Sierra.
11. Eduardo Álvarez Rigal.
12. Wilmer Moreno Suárez.
13. Frank Aldama Rodríguez.
14. Miguel Enrique Girón Velázquez.
15. Hansel Felipe Arbolay Prim.
16. Jorge Vallejo Venegas.
17. Luis Esteffani Hernández Valdés.
18. Franklin Reymundo Fernández Rodríguez.
19. Yunier Sánchez Rodríguez.
20. Carlos Pérez Cosme.
21. Felipe Almirall.
22. Lester Ayala Alarcón.
23. Liván Hernández Lago.
24. Evelio Luis Herrera Duvergel.
25. Jarol Varona Agüero.
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