Cuban influence in leftist candidate for the presidency of Peru.

Maria Werlau, founder of the Cuba Archive at Georgetown University, has warned Peruvians about Cuban interference in the program of Pedro Castillo, leftist candidate of the Peru Libre party for the second round of elections in the South American country, to be held on June 6.

In an interview with the site Perú 21, the Cuban-American intellectual, author of the volume La intervención de Cuba en Venezuela: Una ocupación estratégica con implicaciones globales, points out that "the evidence of Cuba's penetration in Peru is solid" and has been documented since the early days of Fidel Castro's revolution.

"We know how Cuba operates and how it has exported this model throughout the region for more than six decades. This is not new; they are experts in mass mobilization", he points out, and adds that the regime's attempt to take the model to other countries in the area has never been stopped, it has only adopted other forms, by way of "make-up to the obvious armed subversion". 

Otero handcuffed to hospital bed. Cuban scientist Ariel Ruiz Urquiola reported that artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara remains handcuffed to a bed at the Calixto Garcia Hospital in Havana, where he has been held incommunicado since authorities transferred them to that facility on Sunday.

"He is in a ward of the Calixto Garcia guarded by the political police. He has two henchmen in a permanent post in front of him, with cameras placed in the place where he is to be able to detect if anyone tries to take any photographs or make any filming," said Urquiola.

This information came to the biologist's hands from two close sources who for the moment decided to remain anonymous for security reasons, but who at some point will reveal their identity. 

More than 6 daily protests in Cuba in April: More and more Cubans refuse to collaborate with the repression.

In April alone, 203 public protests took place in Cuba, 10% more than in March, and the highest number since September 2020, while more and more Cubans refuse to collaborate with the repressive forces, reveals the monthly report of the Cuban Observatory of Conflicts (OCC).

Of the total number of protests covered in the report, 156 were related to political and civil rights, and the other 47 to respect for economic, social and cultural rights.

The report underlines that during the month of April, due to the celebration of the 8th Congress of the PCC, "the state of siege was intensified in the country with extreme security measures and isolation of activists". 

Cuban specialists deny information from the Ministry of Health on Luis Manuel Otero.

A group of medical and biological science professionals, inside and outside the island, discussed the note issued by the Havana Provincial Health Directorate regarding the case of Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, who was involuntarily transferred to a hospital after eight days on hunger and thirst strike as a peaceful protest against the authorities' repression.

The group of specialists met in several places to analyze details of the note, as well as the values of the blood tests performed on Otero Alcántara. Watch the video in Spanish: