Gricelia Allen Sterling

“When we went to the court, you know how it is, I said to my son Eider, that we were screwed. You know, all the judges and the courts of the communist regime are just a theater play, just a big show. So, I explained to my son, that the penalty is already decided, no matter what we would say or do at the court. We were aware, that it was prepared by the State Security, just a big theater where we were the puppets. ’So how did you see all this, what did you think about the situation, that the aggression against your son was to keep your son in the prison?’ Indeed, exactly, the objective was to keep him in a prison, to control him, all this show.”

“My son Eider was detained and transferred to the Operations office of the State Security. I had to present myself there, so I went there and announced his beating. The officers replied to me, that they did not hurt him. It was Brian from the State Security who replied to me. ’At this moment, the head of Security in Guantanamo was Brian?’ Yes, Brian. Major Brian. But I knew that it was a lie, my son had been beat up. I insisted on stop lying to me, that this Major Brian was a liar. Because there appeared pictures of the police beating my son on Facebook. My son left the Operation in really bad conditions. They finally liberated him during the night, he had to walk all the way to the city. Fortunately, he met some workers there, and they picked him up and brought him to Guantanamo, to El Caribe part of the city.”

“In that time, the most persecutions and aggressions were held towards his wife. By that time Enyor was already married and they lived between the streets El Sol and El Prado. All aggressions were canalized against her, his wife. Including a police house search, a house search, revision of their home at five in the morning. All happened only because she is a wife of an opponent of a Cuban communist Government.”