Enrique Mustelier

“First, let me tell you that the opposition in Guantánamo, because I also had the opportunity to do some opposition in Havana… Let me tell you that the opposition in Guantánamo is somewhat more difficult than in any other province, for the mere fact of being so only 23 kilometers from here, thus from where I am sitting at this moment, from the North American Naval Base. It is something that they at all costs try to prevent something from happening here in Guantánamo. Here the Political Police do not live, but neither do they let the opponents live.”

“A Council is made up of several people. It can be six, when it is a more or less fair Council. But in these cases of paramilitaries, it is a Council that has up to 20 members. They are prisoners who in exchange for a little more food, in exchange for conjugal visits with their wife, in exchange for extra visits, in exchange for cigarettes or pills, even drugs, that they let them traffic, they let them do all that stuff… So in exchange of that, the Security asks them to repress above all the opponents. That is their job. Suppress opponents. That is the job of a paramilitary council.”

“Firstly, the total disagreement with the tyrannical regime existing on the island of Cuba, implanted in the year 1959. A model that does not work. A terrorist model, I would say. It does not work. It doesn't give its citizens opportunities, nothing. I already had a lot of problems, throughout my life I had had a lot of problems with many communist people. I had expressed myself openly, I had said what I thought, and a person who already has that way established, has practically all the doors closed in this country.”