The Illegality of State Security Repression in Cuba
The case of Yasel Cala serves as one more piece of evidence of how the State Security in Cuba operates as a state within the state in Cuba. State Security operatives and thugs operate with complete illegality and impunity and violate even their own laws. Since its creation on March 26, 1959, the State Security (political police) has operated as the regime’s main pillar of repression. They have responsible for the persecution, arbitrary arrest, defamation, intimidation, torture, and killing of tens of thousands of Cubans with different ideas for the past 62 years.
The example in the photos above shows how Yasel Cala Laurencio a human rights and pro democracy activist with the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) in Santiago de Cuba was summoned by a State Security agent to appear in the Police Station known as El Palacete in the city of Santiago de Cuba to be interrogated by an officer by the name of Raúl Mustelier. However, when Yasel showed up at the police station on April 13, she was told by police that they have never heard of an officer by the name of Raúl Mustelier. It turned out they had no record of an officer by the name of Mustelier.
When Yasel returned home, the State Security continued harassing her for not attending a police summon with an officer nobody have ever heard, not even the police at the station.
Democratic Spaces raises a voice against both, the immorality and illegality of repression in Cuba where State Security agents operate above their existing laws. Even within the context a totalitarian dictatorship, where laws exist for no other purpose than to see the interests of the ruling Cuban Communist Party, the regime in power operates outside their own institutions and laws.