Miami – Tania Elena Velázquez Rodríguez, president of the State Telecommunications Monopoly of Cuba (Etecsa) was included in the list of repressors of “white collar” of the Castro regime.
The Cuban repressor project indicated that the official is accused of contributing “to suppressing the Freedom of expression and information from the Cuban people “, right that is protected by article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It also violated the right” to the affordable access to the Internet “.
In this way, they denounced that Velásquez Rodríguez has publicly imposed and justified “a prohibitive and unpopular increase in the prices of that serviceIo “. This increase was announced on May 30.
Likewise, the president of Etecsa is noted to violate the right of access to information and communication technologies.
On Thursday, June 5, during a delivery of the official podcast “From the Presidency”the official appeared together with the Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel: both disqualified the student and citizen protests against the rate, and assured that the measure will remain despite the generalized rejection.
According to Díaz-Canel, “giving up implementing the measures would be to give up income without which we would be accelerating the already eminent collapse of the service.”
Political violence
The Cuban repressor project is made up of Cuban citizens and other nationalities who work “to dissuade the executors of the State’s political violence against the exercise of citizen rights on the island of the responsibility that entails executing those violations.”
On February 12, the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba announced an update of this project on repressors with the inclusion of people linked to the island with serious human rights violations and currently residing in the USA.
