Pablo Moya Delá

“Last of all, what I did was that I brought together about fifty, sixty self-employed from the San Luis area, the area from here in Palma, from there from the Los Ríos area, and that is when the problem began, and brings me all this danger until nowadays. We gathered and all these people from the Government, from the State Security, all the repressive body, came to us. Then they say to me: ‘Come here, boy. The only one who has gathered this many people here in Palma Soriano is you. Come here. Who are you, boy?’ I say: No, I’m nobody. [I am] what represents a fundamental law that we have, and that is what we have to take care of. They [the agents] tell me: ‘No, I am the Constitution.’ I say: Well, if you are the Constitution, that is where the problem lies. Because we are not under the constitutional rights, but we are under the human condition. And so, we are not well, brother. So, we started this fight. Until they coldly told me: ‘Well, we’re going to hit you with a bulldog over your mouth, if you keep meeting with the self-employed. And we are going to declare you as one of the most reactionary counterrevolutionary leaders of the self-employed.”

“When the coronavirus came, the Government carried out an operation at the national level with full force, repressing the people in such a criminal way... Taking from everyone what they were carrying in their hands. If they brought a chicken, they took it from them, they put them in the prison. And with thousand pesos of fine. Two thousand, three thousand pesos of fine. You know that this crisis does not come from the coronavirus. This crisis of hunger and misery has been going on for years. When the coronavirus came and they input this operation, the whole thing comes together and really created that conflict of total hopelessness.”

“No, out there [abroad, when he worked in the Cuban navy] they wouldn't let us buy cars, because they said that this was an ideological deviation for the country. We even got to Halifax in Canada one day. And we were so excited to see those cool cars, we didn't have any. And it seems that was when they hunted down the people from Germany who were bringing car engines. So, we said that if they bring engines, we are going to take a car and put it all together. For the first time we prepared a car. In the meantime, they sent a message to the captain, that no car had to be passed to the ship. And then the cars had to be thrown into the water, thrown away, because they wouldn't allow it. Although we spent so much work at it. Because that brought an ideological deviation.”