By Francisco Acevedo
HAVANA TIMES – This day so special for every family in any corner of this planet is more complicated than usual in Cuba, where almost nothing is normal. Celebrating the date with a decent meal is truly an odyssey, and the sacrifices it implies for most Cubans are no secret to anyone. But we won’t dwell too much on that, supposedly everyone following the events in Cuba should be aware of it.
This week, a video of a mother in front of the infamous El Pitirre police station, also known as 15-80, in the municipality of San Miguel del Padrón in Havana, went viral as she demanded the rights of her son, which are being violated along with other prisoners.
“I declare myself in a sit in,” said Migdalia Gutiérrez, mother of Brusnelvis Adrian Cabrera Gutierrez. In the recording, it’s evident that in response, an officer came out and far from providing information about her son, threatened to further complicate her situation.
Like her, around a thousand mothers will be missing their sons this Sunday, imprisoned for peacefully protesting, because it is very clear that those who did so violently constitute a small minority.
This case is also curious because it involves a young man currently 23 years old, who on July 11, 2021, did not participate in the protests in the La Güinera neighborhood in Havana, as several witnesses asserted. The evidence presented by the Prosecutor’s Office at the time was a photo of a young man on a motorcycle that did not show the tattoos that Cabrera Gutierrez has on his arms. According to his mother, the young man was at a pool that day (of which she presented photos), and then went to work