Bruce IAM González Marrero, former president of the Martian Youth Movement in Santa Clara and former university professor in Cuba, currently resides in Kentucky.
He is currently waiting for the approval of his legal residence in USA. His case has generated outrage in the Cuban exile Due to his history as a fervent defender of the Castro regime, he details the Martí News Web portal.
According to sources confirmed by Martí NewsGonzález Marrero, 28, crossed the border on October 9, 2022 and requested protection in the US, just three months after leading a political act against the peaceful protests of July 11 (11j), which he himself described as “disturbances motivated by the enemy.”
“We come to reaffirm our commitment to historical continuity, with our commander (Fidel Castro),” said González Marrero, at the head of an event with young communists.
He erased the networks, but his past pursues him
After his arrival in American territory, he erased his social networks. However, screenshots collected by independent organizations and activists document their prolonged propaganda work in favor of Castroism.
González Marrero frequently attacked journalists, activists and exiles using violent and sometimes homophobic language.
In August 2022, two months before leaving Cuba, he wrote: “As they like to fell those American chickens … they do not provide real help,” in reference to the US assistance offer after the fire at the Matanzas Superanqueros base.
The US offered help to the Cuban regime after the fire. The dictatorship preferred to accept the help of its allies, Venezuela and Mexico.
Bruce IAM González Marrero describing “chickens” to Americans. Just two months later I asked for asylum in the US.
In another message he affirmed: “Communist is not born, communist is done.”
His publications were shared by regime embassies and other official accounts. González Marrero also disseminated group contents Love bridgesan organization related to the regime dedicated to making lobby against the American embargo.
Martí News He contacted González Marrero to his telephone number, but did not respond to our request for comments.
Although he currently expects the approval of his residence under the Cuban Adjustment Law, consulted lawyers warned that their role as a communist leader could make it inecegible for migratory benefits in the US, since this type of background can be considered as support for a repressive regime.
Reactions in the US
The Cuban community in exile has reacted with indignation.
“After being a cyberclaria, Bruce IAM González Marrero – an also member of the Union of Young Communists – appeared to his appointment with ICE,” said activist Yan Estrada in November 2022.
Estrada, computer and active anti -communist in social networks, urged the authorities to take measures.
“It is not possible for young people on July 11 to remain imprisoned while those who justified their imprisonment live here, benefiting from a migratory system created to protect the victims, not the perpetrators,” he said.
González Marrero’s case is not isolated. In recent years, dozens of ex -officials of the regime have requested asylum in the US.
Another former head of the Martian Youth Movement in Kentucky
Orlando Ernesto Pérez Núñez, successor of Yusuam Palacios at the head of the Martian Youth Movement, also resides in Kentucky after entering the border in November 2024 through the CBP One program. Like González Marrero, he erased his social networks when he reached the country.
The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba has identified more than a thousand people with repressive history, many of them residing in US territory. Cases like those of Rosabel Roca Sampedro, former Camagüey; Liván Fuentes Álvarez, former president of the local government in Isla de la Juventud; and Manuel Menéndez Castellanos, former first secretary of the Communist Party in Cienfuegos, have been reported exclusively by Martí News.
Legislators from the southern Florida have asked the administration of President Donald Trump to prevent repressors of the Cuban regime from finding refuge in the country. Meanwhile, they advoc so that those who suffered persecution in their countries and are in the US with an irregular immigration situation, do not be deported and can defend their cases before the Courts.
