El Sexto Again in Danger, December 2014 / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Posted on December 4, 2014
Friends of the world, I just talked with the graffiti artist El Sexto —
Danilo Maldonado Machado — from Havana, Cuba.
State Security agents are like bloodhounds after him, all over the city,
on motorbikes and in cars.
They are intimidating him, but in the end his arrest by the police
appears imminent.
The Ladies in White Association is going to organize a huge, peaceful,
pro-human rights march in El Vedado on 10 December. And the repressors
are doing what they did during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI in March
of 2012: "preventative" mass arrests for more than a week, without legal
charges nor any right to make a phone call: Pure State kidnappings.
El Sexto's art has no place in the Castroism that castrates our free
Cuban hearts.
The agents are pressuring him to go into exile. I also told him to
consider it, because between the Cubanamericantotalitarian Tycoons and
the European Business Left, the play is already set to impose on us
another half century of Castroism without Castro.
El Sexto just said to me, "Thank you for your friendly advice, Landy,
but for me… they are going to have to kill me in this country."
And El Sexto knows very well of what he speaks, because he wears on his
skin the assassinated bodies of Laura Pollán y Oswaldo Payá.
1 December 2014
Source: El Sexto Again in Danger, December 2014 / Orlando Luis Pardo
Lazo | Translating Cuba -
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