Posted on 11/30/2016 7:08:28 PM PST by bryan999
Cuban dissident artist Danilo “El Sexto” Maldonado, who was detained by authorities on Saturday after mocking Fidel Castro’s death, was severely beaten, according to relatives who saw him at the detention center in Guanabacoa.
“Danilo's mom saw him,” the artist’s girlfriend, Miami resident Alexandra Martinez, 24, said late Tuesday. “He was badly beaten upon entering Guanabacoa and suffered a severe asthma attack.”
Authorities also confiscated his cell phone, she said.
Martinez said Maldonado’s mother, Maria Victoria Machado, was allowed to visit her son at a Guanabacoa police station, on the outskirts of Havana, for the first time since he was violently detained Saturday morning at his Havana apartment. Relatives called the arrest by Cuban State Security a “kidnapping.”
On Friday night, after hearing the news about the death of Fidel Castro, Maldonado went around the city and drew several graffiti, including one with his signature and the words “Se fue” (He’s gone) on a wall at the iconic Hotel Habana Libre, where Castro took up temporary residence in 1959 following his triumphant entrance into Havana alongside rebel fighters, including brother Raúl Castro.
He also posted a video on Facebook mocking Fidel Castro’s death and urging viewers to “come out to the streets...and ask for liberty.”
Since he was hauled away by authorities, Maldonado has been transferred to at least three police stations in the Cuban capital.
Maldonado is accused of damaging public property, his girlfriend said. But no official charges have been issued yet.
Martinez said that shortly after 11 a.m. Saturday, she received a call from Maldonado saying that State Security agents entered his apartment. According to neighbors, four uniformed officers and five others in civilian clothes dragged Maldonado to a patrol car as he shouted, “Abajo Fidel, Abajo Raúl!”
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We need to invade Cuba with airborne Rangers and Seals . follow up with US army. Liberate these bastards. I love the beaches!!
“El Sexto”? Doesn’t that mean the sexto?
Paging PM Trudeau
What the heck do you mean? Trudeau approves of this.
Hell, every Liberal does, the thought of sending their opponents to a Camp, solely for the crime of opposing them is their Dream!
It is what they strive for every day.
Amen.
... followed by free elections.
Great idea! Similar the Reagan's Granada intervention. It would lay down a marker before any other thug that might question Trump's resolve.
John Bolton would approve.
Ask any celebrity in Hollywood and they will tell you
this Maldonado “ElSexto” character is NO artist. You
cannot be an artist and mock the great Father Fidel.
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