There is enough evidence against Spanish pedophile network that operated in Cuba

Brenda Díaz among hundreds arrested on July 11, 2021
Published 2 weeks ago on July 11, 2023

By Michael K. Lavers

Brenda Díaz (Photo courtesy of Ana María García Calderín/Tremenda Nota)
A transgender woman with HIV who participated in an anti-government protest in Cuba on July 11, 2021, remains in prison two years later.

Authorities arrested Brenda Díaz in Güira de Melena in Artemisa province.

The Güira de Melena protest was one of dozens against the Cuban government that took place across the country July 11, 2021. Díaz is among the hundreds of people who were arrested during the demonstrations.

A Havana court last year sentenced García to 14 years in prison. She appealed her sentence, but Cuba’s People’s Supreme Court upheld it.

Yoan de la Cruz, who is gay, used Facebook Live to livestream the first July 11 protest that took place in San Antonio de los Baños in Artemisa province. The same Havana court that sentenced Díaz condemned De La Cruz to six years in prison, but he was released in May 2022 and placed under house arrest for five years.
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BY ENA ALVARADO | JULY 25, 2023

For the protagonists of a new documentary, even lonely, snowy Moscow on the eve of war is preferable to life on their native island.

or the protagonists of Luis Alejandro Yero’s Calls from Moscow, the Russian capital was a place of intense silence and isolation on the eve of the invasion of Ukraine: almost a ghost town.

“Here nothing happens,” says one of the four Cubans, recently exiled queer men, who form the focus of this bold first feature film, shot just weeks before the start of the war.

Undocumented, unable to speak Russian and facing the brunt of the Kremlin’s anti-LGBTQ laws, the men’s decision to abandon their homes lays bare Cubans’ desperate search for a more promising future.

Dariel, Daryl, Juan Carlos and Eldis live in spare, furnished apartments high enough above the ground to block out any noise from the city below. Nero trails the daily experiences of his uprooted compatriots as they pass their days between precarious work — construction gigs, call center stints — and seemingly uninterrupted phone use. They lip-sync on TikTok and keep up with the news back home. They also talk: Conversations with bosses, clients and, of course, loved ones fill the air of an otherwise silent Moscow.
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– This Saturday, May 11, marks five years since a public demonstration in Havana, Cuba, that ended with dozens of LGBTI+ people detained and assaulted.

On that day in 2019, also known as 11M, dozens of people with diverse sexual orientation and gender identity were getting ready to participate in a conga (Cuban dance that is accompanied by drums) for the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, which is commemorated worldwide every May 17; but the event was canceled at the last minute, generating indignation among those preparing to attend, who spontaneously continued with the plan to take to the streets to demand their rights, even though they did not have the approval of the official body that coordinates this activity, the Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual (Cenesex).

Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and trans and non-binary people gathered in Havana’s Central Park, and starting at 4 pm they began to march without a set course. They mobilized peacefully and held a besatón (the name given to the act in which several LGBTI+ people kiss in public as a sign of protest), until the Cuban authorities, including members of the State Security blocked the demonstration, assaulted and arbitrarily detained dozens of demonstrators who had attended thanks to a call made through social networks.

On this date, we spoke with activists from this country about the challenges that come with activism and the struggle for LGBTI+ rights.

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This phrase is mentioned by Yennys Hernández, lesbian activist and reporter for the independent media Periodismo de Barrio, to explain how the activism of LGBTI+ people goes “between a rock and a hard place”.

She has been a victim of harassment by Cuban authorities. More than a year ago, she watched in amazement as State Security showed up at her wedding celebration to take down the names of the human rights defenders who attended the wedding to put pressure on the dissident voices that had gathered at the event.

Hernandez says that, as she and her wife did, in Cuba same-sex couples can marry and adopt; assisted reproduction is also legal, discrimination in the workplace and in education is prohibited, and people with diverse gender identities can change their names on their documents. However, in this country there is no gender identity law, and the macho violence that exists in all public and private spheres punishes, represses, and assaults lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and trans and non-binary people.

LGBTI+ people who fight for their rights are also victims of repression and harassment by Cuban authorities, as are artists, independent journalists and, in general, dissident voices against the Cuban government. Most people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, according to Hernández, avoid reporting that they have been summoned for interrogation to avoid being excluded from the dialogues and processes that seek to advance the recognition of the rights of this population in Cuba.

LGBTI+ people “wash and put away their clothes”, that is, they censor themselves to survive in this country, where there are no official records that address the gender-based violence suffered daily by lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and trans and non-binary people.

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The story of Brenda Díaz García, a trans woman who remains in a male penitentiary center for participating in the peaceful protests of July 11, 2021 (known as 11J) in the municipality of Güira de Melena, in the province of Artemisa, demonstrates the discrimination and, in general, the violence suffered by trans people in Cuba.

She was arrested because, according to Cuban authorities, she had “dressed as a woman to infiltrate” the demonstrations. And as soon as she arrived in prison, they cut her hair and did not recognize her chosen name, two symbolic aggressions that annulled her rights.

Brenda Díaz was initially sentenced to more than 14 years in prison, but eight months ago her sentence was reduced to 7 years and nine months, according to Ana María García, her mother, who has repeatedly denounced that her daughter has been beaten and has been the victim of sexual violence inside the prison, where she remains for demanding changes in Cuba.

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“Doing activism in Cuba and being an LGBTI+ person is complicated because you know very well what happens inside the Island, and the fear that exists is a fear that they put inside your body; and, from here it is easier to do it because you feel free to be able to do it, because you are not watched,” says Nornardo Perea, a Cuban artivist exiled in Spain since 2019.

The writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker participated in the 00 Havana Biennial in May 2018, which was organized by the San Isidro Movement (of which he is still part). As a result of this event where he openly exposed his political position and sexual orientation, Perea was threatened and interrogated three times by Cuban authorities.

“In the third interview they made me sign a paper with several slogans. In the end, they (the authorities) do with you whatever they want. There were five hours of interrogation in Marianao (municipality of Havana). They forced me to collaborate with them,” says the artivist, who after participating in March 2019 in a journalism workshop in Prague, Czech Republic, went into exile in Madrid, Spain, and still, he says, continues to adapt to that city and that country.

The stories revealed by Hernandez, Garcia, and Perea show how complex it is to be an activist and fight for LGBTI+ rights in Cuba, a country where advances such as equal marriage or adoption between same-sex couples have occurred, and at the same time lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and trans and non-binary people are prohibited from participating in marches independently and demanding their rights without participating in the actions organized by Cenesex.

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Post by John Suarez
JUNE 6, 2024

“We would never come to believe that a homosexual could embody the conditions and requirements of conduct that would enable us to consider him a true revolutionary, a true communist militant.” ... A deviation of that nature clashes with the concept we have of what a militant communist should be.” - Fidel Castro, 1965

Forty years ago on March 21, 1984 in France the film "Mauvaise Conduite" was released. The film was made by Néstor Almendros (1930-1992) and Orlando Jiménez Leal. The title of the film in English is Improper Conduct and it examines the "moral purges" of the Cuban Revolution that began in 1964 with the creation of Military Units to Aid Production or UMAPs (Unidades Militares de Ayuda a la Producción).

These forced labor camps were for those suspected of or found guilty of "improper conduct." Persons with effeminate mannerisms: what the Cuban government called "extravagant behavior" were taken to these camps.

This systematic repression of homosexuals had an ideological component that first impacted policies in Communist China and the Soviet Union.

In the USSR homosexuality was criminalized on March 7, 1934, "punishable by prison and hard labor, and Stalinist anti-gay policies persisted throughout the 1960s and 1970s." The Soviet anti-homosexual laws were on the books until 1993, two years after its dissolution.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia which claimed to be "the first Marxist–Leninist general-purpose encyclopedia" offered the following information on homosexuality in 1930.
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August 13, 2024 by Carlos Eire

From our Bureau of Total Socialist Hypocrisy with some assistance from our Bureau of Documents That Prove the Booger Princess to be a Total Fake

Lo and behold. Some of the most carefully hidden documents dealing with Castro, Inc.’s homophobia have been brought to light. What they reveal is so shocking — according to present-day standards of correctness in Western civilization — that it should immediately turn Castrogonia into a pariah state worthy of total isolation and annihilation, much like the South Africa of the 1980’s. Oh, but nothing like that will happen.

Castro, Inc. is protected by ideological Super-Teflon. Nothing negative ever sticks to it. Whatever it does is alright. It provides free health care and free education. Never mind how awful the health care and the education are. Cubans are Neanderthals, basically, so whatever Castro, Inc. gives them is more than what they deserve. To hell with that homophobia crap. It simply doesn’t apply. Plus, Mariela Castro has atoned for all the sins of her father’s generation by pretending to be a “sexoligist” who finds alternative sexual preferences acceptable.
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Sandokan said:

The documents provide a detailed view of how these labor camps were operated, designed to “reeducate” people deemed “deviant” or “antisocial” with “effeminate” behaviors. There was a detailed plan for a “Model Center” to restructure the treatment of homosexuals. The objectives were to “erasing all effeminate behavior” and “developing a political-social consciousness” compatible with plans to prevent homosexuality, highlighting the systematic intent to suppress homosexual identity and behavior. A Machiavellian plan where the end justifies the means.

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Sandokan said:

Cuba has been compare to Thailand as a “paradise of sex tourism” (Sex Tourism and Child Prostitution in Cuba, Redirecting...). There is a very simple answer to the problem of prostitution: change the Castroit regime and the problem for the most part will solve itself, since the women will no longer need to prostitute themselves out of necessity. This is the result of the poverty created by 54 years of dictatorship.

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Nickyjo said:

Here’s a hint for you and your apparent obsession with Cuba above all other repressive governments: Cuba was a paradise for sex tourism long before Castro came to power. It was a cliché. See Godfather II. Or the great line by Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles to the horny gal played by Madeline Kahn who wanted even more sex, “I am not from Havana.”

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CLAX1911 said:

So you're only examples are movies?

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Nickyjo said:

The movies reflected the stereotype of Cuba as the US’s whore house. Just search under “sex and pre-Castro Cuba.” This is not a defense of what Castro did, but I quote a Cuban exile I worked with in 1961, “I hate Castro, but the US got what it deserved in Cuba.”

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CLAX1911 said:

So just movies. K

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Nickyjo said:

No, as I posted, just search under “sex

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CLAX1911 said:

I saw you mention godfather that's a movie.

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Nickyjo said:

Sorry, it seems that my post was cut off. Search under something like “sex tourism in Cuba pre-Castro.” The mention in the films reflected the reality or stereotype of Cuba. Doesn’t mean that it necessarily ended with Castro, just that films and songs celebrated the sexual good times people thought we to be had in the country.

For some reason the Al Jolson song, “She’s a Latin From Manhattan” came to mind. The song pokes fun at a woman putting on airs as if she were from Cuba:
She’s a Latin from Manhattan,
I can tell by her mañana.
She’s a Latin from Manhattan,
But not Havana.

But the song illustrates the exoticism associated with the island in US culture of some time ago.

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CLAX1911 said:

So movies and songs?

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Nickyjo said:

What are you missing? The movies and songs reflected a reality that is easy to discover. Cuba was a sexual playground for tourists from the US and elsewhere. Look it up. I told you the words to use in your search. Drive away my mistaken belief with your own data that debunks it. I am not defending Castro or Batista.

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CLAX1911 said:

Movies and songs May reflect parts of reality but they don't reflect reality as a whole.

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Nickyjo said:

As I posted Google the topic.

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CLAX1911 said:

Why?

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