HAVANA.- After having served the regime of Cuba, Having contributed to the systematic violation of human rights against the population and endorsed policies of food insecurity on the island, former Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque appeared on the streets of Havana after fifteen years of absence following having been purged by the same dictatorship that he defended and fell into disgrace.
Felipe Pérez Roque served the Castro dictatorship until 2009from being the highest representative of diplomacy and enjoying the benefits of power and the luxuries that the position allowed him, now wanders on foot and waits for public transportation like millions of Cubans do on the streets of the island.
At the head of the island’s highest diplomatic post, Pérez Roque stood out for his confrontational foreign policy towards the United States. He systematically defended the repressive and criminal actions of the Castro dictatorship in international forums such as the UN.
Recently, Internet user Siro Cuartel shared on his Facebook profile an image of one of the main figures of power in Cuba. The former high official of the Castro regime looks deteriorated. The photo was captured when the man was browsing on his cell phone while waiting for a bus.
An executioner with “inappropriate behavior”
Pérez Roque ceased to be useful to the dictatorship, he was involved with connections with an agent of the National Intelligence Center of Spain, and Fidel Castro hinted in an article for the newspaper Granma that the “honey of power” had awakened in him unworthy ambitions.
Exiled from the ruling elite, he now appears to be just another Cuban, far removed from the excesses and repressive decisions he supported.
The photo, which was posted on social media, has sparked thousands of comments among Internet users. Some say he could seek asylum in the US, while others are happy to see him in the same misery he created.
Before becoming Foreign Minister, Pérez Roque was an aide to Fidel Castro. His name became prominent in Cuba due to his rapid rise to power and his insistent crowing of loyalty to communism.
Both he and Carlos Lage, vice president of the Council of State of Cuba between 1993 and 2009, wrote self-incriminating messages, which were published in the state press and where they also declared their loyalty to the Cuban Revolution, but that was of no use to them; the dictatorship rejected them.
