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Because of these charges in the US, Gilbert Man faced a sentence of up to 16 years in prison but paid bail and escaped before trial. Among other illegal activities, he was accused of fraud in the amount of $150,000 in purchases at stores such as Toys-R-Us and Babies-R-Us, as well as 176 fraudulent transactions with more than 100 credit cards, together with two alleged accomplices.

The US court also charged him with several fraud offenses

Ten months after his escape, he managed to obtain an identity card from the Cuban authorities and established himself in the country.

Once on the Island, he led an ostentatious lifestyle, which was reflected in social media. Among his belongings in Havana a mansion in Guanabacoa stood out, which had a swimming pool, bar and jacuzzi, precious wood furniture, wrought iron grills, curtains and carpets, collections of perfumes and beverages, along with bulky bundles of notes with which he posed for photos on Facebook.

It wasn’t long before Gilbert Man, who was also a producer of several Cuban reggaeton artists, was arrested in January 2015 by elite forces from the Ministry of the Interior, in an unusual operation. A video about that day leaked to social media went viral, though the official press never mentioned the event.

After the arrest and trial, which took 18 months to complete, the musician, who is about to turn 40, had all his property confiscated, including his house (now a home for orphans), five luxury cars (a Camaro, a Saab, a Hyundai, an Audi and a BMW), money (a sum that was not revealed) and the furniture.

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requirements established by the court, as set forth in the Criminal Enforcement Law and its Regulations, the benefit was revoked in April of this year.”

The opposition leader was reportedly placed under provisional detention for “committing a new crime.” “Once the investigation was concluded, this body, in accordance with its legal powers, decided to modify the provisional detention measure,” they explain.

In any case, his release fulfills the wish he had expressed in a handwritten letter published by his family on October 3. The letter was sent from Mar Verde prison in Santiago de Cuba, where he had been since his parole was revoked on April 29, after he had been released for three months.

“This decision was taken for the safety of my family and because of the frustration that I felt when I came out of prison to confirm the disunity, sectarianism and lack of effectiveness of the opposition inside and outside Cuba in the struggle for freedom and the well-being of our homeland,” he said in the letter sent from Mar Verde prison in Santiago de Cuba, where he had been since his parole was revoked, referring to his months of release.

“For years I have been subjected to brutal beatings, torture, humiliation, threats of death, and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment by henchmen and other instruments of the worst dictatorship the American continent has ever known,” the text began. “All with the intention of forcing me to leave my country or renounce the nonviolent struggle for freedom, democracy, human rights, and the well-being of my homeland.”

“All with the intention of forcing me to leave my country or renounce the non-violent struggle for freedom, democracy, human rights and the welfare of my homeland.”

In the past few months in prison, “the brutality of the dictatorship against me has exceeded all limits,” he said, listing “beatings, torture, humiliation, threats and extreme conditions,” as well as “the theft of my food and toiletries” and threats against his wife, Nelva Ortega, and their children. “All with the intention of forcing me to leave my homeland,” he says. “In the face of constant demonstrations by the political police to force me out of Cuba, I ended up agreeing to go into exile.”

However, he said, “since the procedures to achieve this end began, as always happens, the agents of the regime have been playing dirty: they continue with the plan of harassment, threats, humiliations, thefts and extreme conditions.” As an example, he mentions the pressure they exerted to have his marriage with Nelva take place on the “birthday of the deceased dictator,” August 13, and the “videos and recordings” that Ferrer claims they took “with the intention of producing publications that call into question our commitment to the struggle for freedom in Cuba.”

He also stated that they had wanted to compel him to make statements and to ask the Catholic Church to mediate between Havana and Washington, a dialogue he defined as “leading to the shameful negotiation of other times: release of political prisoners in exchange for lifting sanctions and other gifts to the dictatorship.”

The opponent clarified: “If my life and that of my family depends on me asking such things, I prefer my death in this Nazi-style concentration camp and even the sacrifice of my family.” And he adds, without making it clear whether his departure can take place in the short term, “I will only leave Cuba with my dignity, honor and my head held high and not for long.”

On the same day, Cuban-American congressman Mario Díaz-Balart spoke out on X about the opponent’s decision, calling him a “hero” and saying, “After years of imprisonment, beatings, physical and psychological torture and persecution by the murderous regime in Cuba simply for demanding freedom, he is being forced into exile. He deserves a welcome worthy of a hero and will receive it.” However, from the moment the letter was published, all was uncertainty.

Last Monday, Ferrer’s wife, Nelva Ortega, was arrested for several hours after demanding explanations for being denied the week’s conjugal visit. Ana Belkis Ferrer, sister of the opponent, said that Ortega went to prison to visit her husband, but Captain Liván Laguart Riquelme refused entry “without a clear reason. At 12:30, with Ferrer’s wife standing in front of the entrance to protest the decision, four agents of the Ministry of the Interior detained her, saying that she should accompany them to the Research and Operations Centre in Versailles so that someone could explain why she was not allowed to visit.”

“If another video or post came out everything would go backwards in terms of the exit process, both for him and the family, and she would be imprisoned”

“After driving her there, they kept her for almost half an hour inside the patrol car under the sun. They then drove her to an office where the aforementioned repressors were located: Major Raúl, another filming with a camera and one who initiated the threats. According to them, this was her last warning for being on social networks publishing against the authorities and institutions of the regime, in addition to the current situation of my brave brother. That if another video or publication came out everything would go backwards in terms of the exit process, both for him and the family, and she would be imprisoned,” said Ferrer’s sister, who added that her sister-in-law returned home around 2:00 pm.

On previous occasions, Ferrer had spoken out against leaving the country, as offered by State Security in exchange for not keeping him in prison and under torture. The opponent was informed of the charges against him -propaganda against the constitutional order and contempt of Díaz-Canel- two weeks after he was imprisoned.

Ferrer was violently removed from his home, also the headquarters of UNPACU, in Altamira, Santiago de Cuba, after three months of constant harassment. According to his family, the State Security agents “completely ransacked” the house and took him away, along with Nelva Ortega and their young son, Daniel José, although these last two were released hours later.

On the same day, April 29, Félix Navarro was also arrested during a visit with his wife, the Lady in White Sonia Álvarez, to the prison where their daughter Sayli is being held in Matanzas.

Both opponents were part of the group of prisoners released last January under an agreement between the regime and the Vatican, and returned to prison eight days after the death of the previous pope, Francis.

The Council for the Democratic Transition in Cuba (CTDC), of which Ferrer is president, celebrated the news of the opposition figure’s exile. “His release and departure constitute a profoundly human relief, after having witnessed the intense pressure and harassment he and his family have suffered since he made public his intention to leave the island,” the organization said in a statement.

“We know that his mind remains clear and that his firm decision to continue fighting for his country from another perspective, until the day he can return, will be crucial,” they continue. They conclude, stating: “With his powerful and scarred voice, José Daniel Ferrer will continue to be a moral and political figurehead for all Cubans committed to building a free, just, and democratic Cuba.”

Amnesty International also welcomed the news, referring to his departure as a “forced exile.” “His situation is not an isolated incident,” the NGO asserted in a tweet. “It is part of the Cuban government’s systematic strategy of silencing dissenters, imprisoning them under extreme circumstances, and expelling them for seeking justice and defending human rights.”

In the same message, they make an “urgent call” to the regime’s authorities to “end the repression,” “immediately and unconditionally release all those who remain unjustly imprisoned in Cuba,” and “respect the right to freedom of expression and the defense of human rights.”

The departure of the UNPACU leader comes on the same day as the arrival in Madrid of another opposition member and prisoner of conscience, Luis Robles, “the young man with the placard.”

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brothers, Lester Fernández, while he was building a boat. He was also fined 7,000 pesos for “illegal exit from the country,” although there was no proof of it, as his mother has reported since they submitted the facts in early 2023.

Yindra Elizastigui, for her part, has been one of the most combative mothers for the cause of political prisoners, not just her son. Throughout his years in prison, she never tired of denouncing the ill-treatment Robles received. “We must continue to defend them, because our children and our families are innocent. What they did, they did for a right that all human beings want,” she declared in a live broadcast in May last year when her son was once again denied the conditional release to which he was entitled.

Graduated in Informatics, we started to know more about Luis Robles thanks to his brother, Landy Fernández Elizastigui, who became one of the channels of communication of the “young man with the placard” with the outside. In an interview with 14ymedio, Fernández said that his brother has always “thought differently about the regime.”

Indeed, three days before going out on the streets to demonstrate peacefully, Robles recorded a video that was published much later where he talked about his thoughts, desires and also the reasons that led him to be a protester.

“We wish from the heart for a change, a change of system, a change of country, because really communism has turned this country into a living hell”

“We sincerely wish for a change, a change of system, a change of country, because really communism has turned this country into a living hell, a hell where it is practically impossible to breathe, not only air, but also peace and tranquility,” he stated.

At another time, he said that “freedom is the greatest thing you can have in life, and these shameless communists since they arrived have cut off all kinds of freedoms, freedom to a free religion, freedom to a free ideology, freedom to choose who you like, not who they impose on you.” And he continued: “They have taken away even the freedom to think, they want to control even what we think.”

In March 2022, the 29-year-old published a letter reiterating his struggle and goal: “freedom for the people of Cuba.” In the missive, Robles went back to the reasons that brought him to the peaceful protest that led to prison.

“I decided to break my silence because I was tired of seeing my country destroyed and the government doing nothing to fix it,” he explained, “because I think that Cuba’s greatest enemy is not outside but sitting in the seat of the President.”

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then brought in some Czech engines” to start up the hydroelectric.

Around Hanabanilla, and under the influence of Fidel Castro, numerous businesses emerged that are now in decline due to the low influx of travelers. Some, however, survive, and the paladar El Guajiro, of wide renown among residents and anyone who has ever visited the lake, is an example. The only way to reach the rustic restaurant is by boat, and, as soon as the visitor approaches the shore, he hears the sizzling of hot oil and smells the odor of roast beef.

The shack, made entirely of wood, serves everything that is missing in Cuba, for prices between 1,800 and 2,000 pesos: “chicken, lamb, goat, pork steak or fried pork and fish.” Each dish is served with its portion of rice, snacks and salad, and everything, as the cook himself says, is produced in the paladar. “We produce the pigs ourselves, also the cassava, malanga… The lake gives us the fish: trout and tilapia,” he says with pride.

The guajiros of Hanabanilla live to the rhythm of the boats

Before, he recalls, they even saw deer on the hills that came down to drink at the shore. “I caught them before by swimming, right here in the lake. These are the things (the fish) that are being lost. If I don’t catch them, someone else will,” he reflects.

The possibility of exploiting resources in the area is a relief for the residents. According to the man, who lives at times between the lake and the village of Cumanayagua, “here [in the hamlet] you can live without electricity. Down there [in the village] I can’t live without it: mosquitoes, despair, having nothing to cook with. Not here. Coal is used here permanently, for everything.”

Businesses like El Guajiro, one of the first paladares, founded “before 2012” according to its owner, mark the day to day on the lake. “You arrive at the hotel [Hanabanilla] or anywhere on the lake and tell the boatman ‘I want to eat at Guajiro’s House’ and come to Guajiro’s House to eat. They have to bring them here, and then we give lunch to the boatman,” explains the worker.

The paladar also has other workers, who, when they have shifts all day, stay to sleep in a small house near the restaurant, made, like all the others, of wood.

The boatmen are a whole guild of neighbors who know each other and have been crossing the lake for years. They also have their own businesses and do the tourist routes to the different corners of the lake. “We give excursions to Jibacoa, from Jibacoa to the canopy, and we return to the waterfall and Guajiro’s House. The other excursion that we have is the one that goes to Nicho, (part of the Topes de Collantes nature park)” says one of them.

The canopy, through which visitors hang from a thick cable over the lake, is a very recent attraction. Installed just last year, it is “the longest in Cuba, in the Jibacoa-Hanabanilla park,” says one of the managers, dressed in gloves, helmet and harness.

The boats and barges are part of the ecosystem. Each family has its own, some motorized, others with oars. The boatmen, surrounded by ancient and Taino names such as Hanabanilla, Jibacoa and Cumanayagua, choose to name their boats with more modern names like Natalia or Príncipe.

The boats come and go from the hotel Hanabanilla, a multi-storey building that Fidel Castro ordered to be built, and which with the passing years and deterioration is losing more and more charm. The majority of tourists who pass through the area still arrive there.

When night begins to fall, the hotel is filled with music and the noise of the kitchen even though it is mostly empty. On the shore, a few boats, two or three, wait at a tiny floating dock, hoping that some visitor is encouraged to take a tour on the lake, although the demand is almost as small as the boats themselves. However, many prefer to hire private boatmen.

With the passage of time and the decline of the hotel complex, the engines break, there are irreparable gaps in the hulls, and the boatmen depart. The hotel itself has become a graveyard for boats. In its surroundings, dozens of boats rest face down, becoming a refuge for lizards, snails and small animals.

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Finally, said La Demajagua, the initiative will also include 132 young people from the “job insertion plan of June, for those who go to the municipal registry and are offered the delivery of available land.” According to the media, a similar measure began in 2011 to put young service graduates to work, and Granma was the first province to carry out this process.

Spread over the 13 municipalities of the province, the boys have already registered for the 2,269 hectares granted in total to various institutions

The regime’s allergy to the “bums” and “pariahs,” as it has come to call the unemployed, is something that its leaders have been unable to get rid of for more than six decades. Now, with the Island lacking a labor force, getting young people to work for the State is like solving both issues at once.

“It’s a weapon deployed against unemployment once again in this territory, where 2,203 people, until a week ago disconnected from study and work, have returned to the classrooms,” celebrated Granma this Wednesday, alluding to Guantánamo.

Although some seek to graduate from high school and others enter university, most will “train as technicians in different specialties — 32 in total — which take priority and are needed in upper Granma province,” wrote the Communist Party media.

“From this effort, the Guantánamo health services will receive nurses and anesthesiologists; new transport railways will see the light, as well as inspectors in the electrical branch and linemen who will reinforce the work of Etecsa [the State telecommunications monopoly],” added the media, which did not hide that the main objective is “to inject manpower into strategic sectors in which Guantánamo has a deficit.”

As before, those involved were not entirely free to choose the areas in which they would work. The province, which visited the unemployed “house to house,” made a list of options that respond to specific needs of the territory. “The courses, which are also open to those who have chosen to join the Ministry of the Interior, involve the University of Guantánamo in the training of graduates in Accounting and Finance, Management for Development, as well as in Law, Primary Education and Preschool Education,” it added.

While looking for the labor force it needs, the State has begun, for the umpteenth time, to fill vacancies with university students

While looking for the labor force it needs, the State has begun, for the umpteenth time, to fill vacancies with undergraduates. On Monday, at the University of Medical Sciences in Havana, students were called to form a work contingent of teachers due to the shortage of teachers in the schools. “We have more than a thousand students engaged in this work in several provinces, although we expect the number to increase in those territories where there are the greatest complexities,” Education Minister Naima Ariatne Trujillo Barreto told Juventud Rebelde.

The plan is for university students to fill vacancies at secondary and pre-university levels throughout the island*. For this, said the minister, it is necessary to “encourage and increase the interest of young people who already participate and eliminate certain bureaucratic obstacles that hinder the recruitment of the newly interested.”

The Medical Science students are the same ones who also, year after year, are sent to carry out inspections against disease vectors in the neighborhoods all over the island.

An employment survey published last July by the National Bureau of Statistics and Information stressed that Cuba has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the region (1.7%). However, the numbers in the report themselves reflected a different reality: more than half of Cubans over 15 are not working or looking for work.

Of the 8,433,226 Cubans aged 15 or over in 2024, 4,227,333 persons were not part of the labor force, compared to 4,205,893 who were (50.1% versus 49.9%), and of these, 69,333 were unemployed. This represents an employment rate of just 49 per cent, one of the lowest in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the average last year was 58.9 per cent, according to the International Labor Organization.

*This program is called “Educating for Love”

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3,200 hectares of land distributed among state enterprises, cooperatives and other entities.

“The UBPC is the largest cooperative in the municipality for milk delivery and the most important in the cultivation of sugar cane”

“The UBPC is the largest cooperative in the municipality for milk delivery and the most important in the cultivation of sugar cane,” explains a family member who prefers anonymity. “Several demands have been made for the restoration of electricity, and the answer given is that there are more important companies.” The source clarifies that “the farmers are going through a hard situation because they can’t even give their animals water or recharge lamp batteries.”

“There are more than 100 people affected,” estimates the woman, who maintains close communication with relatives in the area. “The farmers have asked that as long as this situation lasts they allow them to deliver cheese [already made and easier to keep even with the lack of power] instead of milk, but they [the State] does not accept this possibility,” she explains referring to the government’s demands.

“The milk cart picks it up at 5:00 in the morning, so farmers must get up at 3:00 in the morning to milk,” she complains. “Their lamps aren’t charged so milking is a headache, because due to the rains the mud is horrible.”

Until a few years ago, the UBPC delivered the cane to the Argentina mill, but after the paralysis of that industry they began to bring the cane to the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes sugar mill. “Last year there were problems with milling for lack of water,” says Amarilys, who has several family members working in the nearby sugar factory. “Now, with these rains the fields are flooded, and it is very difficult to plant at this stage, and everyone is very upset with the lack of electricity.”

The hopes of the families affected by the long blackout are now focused on “the sun coming out, so everything is dry and the electricity company can work and bring us power.”

The hopes of the families affected by the long blackout are now focused on “the sun coming up, so everything is dry and the electric company can work and bring us power.” Expenses are high. “You have to cook only what you are going to eat that day because you can’t save anything. When I buy chicken I have to buy the small packages because the big ones would spoil, and that ends up being more expensive.”

Together with her husband, Gustavo, the woman tries to do “everything possible while there is sunlight.” When night falls “here you can’t even see your hands because the lamp batteries are now at zero.” This Saturday makes exactly 17 days since the last time the light bulbs hanging from the ceiling went on in their house. “I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy,” says Amarilys.

The weather, however, drives away the dreams of the woman and the rest of those affected. “The network of rain gauges of the National Institute for Water Resources in the province of Camagüey recorded significant rainfall accumulations during the last three days, influenced by the permanence of a trough over the territory and the transit of tropical waves to the south,” warns an update published this Saturday. The forecast is that the situation will remain very unstable in the coming days.

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million people have left the country. The opposition has been systematically repressed through electoral fraud, legal persecution and imprisonment.”

The committee highlighted the political work that Machado has done, first as the founder of Súmate, defending judicial independence, human rights and popular representation. “She has spent years working for the freedom of the Venezuelan people.” Despite this, she found her candidacy blocked, and it had to be taken over by Edmundo González Urrutia.

The chairman of the committee recalled how the election campaign for the presidential elections of July 2024 took place, in the midst of risks, arrests and torture, with the support of hundreds of thousands of volunteers who helped document the election result “before the regime could destroy the ballots and lie about the result.”

The text unequivocally supports the electoral victory of the Venezuelan opposition and recalls that there was support from international observers. “However, the regime refused to accept the election result and clung to power,” it adds.

The Norwegian Committee, through the Venezuelan opposition, has defended democracy, which it considers “in retreat” worldwide. “Democracy is a prerequisite for lasting peace. Yet we live in a world where democracy is in decline, where more and more authoritarian regimes defy the rules and resort to violence. The iron control of power by the Venezuelan regime and its repression against the population are not unique in the world. We see the same trends worldwide,” it states. Although 2024 was an eminently electoral year around the world, the committee has highlighted that these processes are becoming less and less free and fair.

“Last year, Mrs. Machado was forced to go into hiding. Despite serious threats to her life, she has remained in the country, a decision that has inspired millions of people. When authoritarians take power, it is crucial to recognize the brave defenders of freedom who rise up and resist. Democracy depends on those who refuse to keep quiet, who dare to step forward,” said Watne.

According to the committee, María Corina Machado meets the three criteria set out in Alfred Nobel’s will for the selection of a Nobel Peace Prize: uniting the opposition, not wavering in her resistance and supporting the transition to democracy.

With this decision, Machado becomes the seventh Latin American to receive the award. She is preceded by the Argentines Carlos Saavedra Lamas and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, the Mexican Alfonso García Robles, the Costa Rican Oscar Arias, the Guatemalan Rigoberta Menchú and the Colombian Juan Manuel Santos.

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to them. “Their owners have added them to the local fauna on wheels, competing with private and state transport, in the struggle to see who gets paid more in very short stretches.”

These actions are to the detriment of citizens, it claims, “already bored by so many failed inventions that only affect their pocketbooks.” The reason for the high fares, the drivers defend, is the high price they pay not only for the vehicle but also its batteries, which are usually of poor quality and don’t last long.

As if that were not enough, 5 de Septiembre claims that many “circumvent” the traffic laws and circulate without a license to carry passengers. “There are hundreds that circulate without such a license, something that can be seen in the poor driving by some of the drivers,” adds the newspaper.

This may be due, it admits, to the “sometimes very long” delays in the technical testing of tricycles and the certification required for them to serve as public transport, which leads drivers to start driving without the necessary permits.

In many cities, as in Cienfuegos, it is the private ones that transport the largest mass of passengers daily

Sold on online platforms, mostly in dollars, the electric tricycles have been widely purchased by Cubans whose families abroad can afford to buy them. Business owners and MSMEs* also started buying them to use in the movement of goods. Recently, they have become vehicles to carry passengers with the approval of the State, which lacks the means to take care of public transport on its own.

In many cities, such as Cienfuegos, it is the private sector that transports the largest mass of passengers on a daily basis, since buses have disappeared, and the State tricycles, imported from China and distributed throughout the country in small quantities, usually do not last long or don’t suffice.

Even with the “help” of private individuals, transport in Cuba is at its worst. According to data published in September by the National Statistics and Information Office (ONEI), in the first half of this year, 407.9 million passengers were transported in the country, 10.2% fewer than a year earlier.

Not only does the number of people being transported by conventional means decrease but there are also fewer travelers using “alternative means,” such as animal-powered cars, bicitaxis, trucks and private cars. Between January and June 2025, there were 169.1 million, compared to 191.5 million in the same period of 2024, some 11.7% fewer.

*Translator’s note: Literally, “Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises.” The expectation is that it is also privately managed, but in Cuba this may include owners/managers who are connected to the government.

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