the artist and Opponent Cuban Maykel Osorbo The phrase was tattooed on his body “Home and Life” and decided to sew up his mouth Jail in protest, according to information published on networks
“Respect, I ask. I don’t care about the nine years I’ve been kicked out. I’m ready to keep being myself and accepting whatever. But artists are treated with respect. I don’t.” I will give my respects in exchange for nothing or my freedom. Enough of putting in or getting noodles,” he said Political prisoner to the activist Analy Ramos in a phone conversation this Wednesday shared on social networks.
He also sent the Cuban rapper a rhyming text message, “knowing it could be the last words,” Ramos said in his Facebook post.
“If they are to be the last, they should be artistic. I don’t want to have a tooth anymore and I don’t want to talk to anyone anymore. I’ll even sew my mouth shut. If you don’t hear from me anymore.” Friday, you know what happened: put in a cell with your mouth sewn shut. This is war!” the artist also said in his conversation with the Cuban activist living in exile in the United States.
Likewise, Ramos denounced the abuses committed against Osorbo for months in the 5-year Medio prison in Pinar del Río, where he has been imprisoned for more than two years.
“The reality is that Maykel was trying to find peace in prison. He knows this is a struggle of resistance, and while he’s faced moments of crisis, he’s tried to push his mind to reinvent himself, to read, to keep making songs, and to connect with his family and… not to lose to all other Cubans,” he said. Namely in his post.
He also recalled that the Cuban artist’s life was in danger “like that of all political prisoners who are not willing to play at the pace that power wants”.
“In those more than two years of unjust prison, there were all kinds of abuses: punishment cells, solitary confinement that could last up to three months for sending out an audio thank-you note for the Grammy Awards, suspension of regular visits and conjugal visits, restrictions for…” Delivery of his food (for security reasons, Maykel tries to eat as little as possible of what is given there), delay in providing medical assistance when he needed it, refusal to give his medical records to his family, threats from generally allowed the prisoners (unless ordered by the heads of the prison), constant visits of the SE and the second head of the prison delegation to try to humiliate them, installation of the surveillance camera…”, denounced the Cuban activist.
The art historian, too, shared the artist’s final statement before pinching his mouth:
“Then give it, my rebellion is different. I eased and fell like the lion of the east. I led my invasion when things got ugly and the descent was in San Pedro like General Maceo. I attacked myself with my own war on my border/ I didn’t give up/ and I fell like Quintín Bandera/ I never delegated/ and I stayed firmly in my homeland/ and in the end I found myself as Guillermón Moncada Are defined/.
They beat me and I bled/, I fell and got up/ and the one who gave me his hand just gave me his foot/. I fell in Loma de Gato like General José/ they destroyed my partition/ they broke my head with cynicism/ but what they couldn’t/ was to break myself/.
While injustice clashes / I will not close my arms / Nor will I close my mouth / I will sew it up anyway.