Cuban opponent and expriser Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello is in “serious but stable” state and hospitalized in the intensive care room in the “Manuel Fajardo” hospital in Havana.
Roque Cabello, 79, was admitted to … Last Friday due to renal dysfunction. Already hospitalized, they performed several medical analyzes that resulted, in addition, cardiac arrhythmia and blood pressure problems. The economist remains under medication and even had to receive blood transfusion, according to information shared daily by the doctors who attend it.
Although it is aware, it remains disoriented and, after four days of hospitalization, renal function has not been recovered.
Roque had no children or has a family on the island, but several friends of his trust and activists watch over her before the police siege and surveillance that the political police maintain in the hospital.
The economist and activist began in the Cuban opposition in the mid -90s. In 1997, together with three of his companions he was arrested and judged by “actions against the national security of the Cuban State” and “sedition”; She was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Amnesty International declared the four prisoners of consciousness. Martha B. Roque would be released in May 2000, after serving his sentence.
Three years later, she was again prosecuted for her ideas and opposition activism: she was the only woman among the 75 people imprisoned in 2003 by Fidel Castro during the process known as Cuba’s black spring; At that time, with 58 years of age, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In jail he suffered a heart attack that, together with international repudiation for violence unleashed against Cuban civil society, culminated with extrapenal freedom for her.
Despite the threats of being returned to prison, Roque Cabello did not accept banishment and remained on the island; In May 2005 he managed to organize a national meeting in Havana to promote civil society with delegates from all over the country and foreign guests, including the representative of the United States Interesting Office in Havana, James Cason.
In 2007 he was one of the candidates nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize; He was deserving of the International Women of Courange Awards (International Award for Women of Courage, for their Spanish translation). He has also been recognized for “his tireless struggle” for human rights and religious freedom in Cuba for more than four decades.
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