“Glad to get the hell out of the Castro extermination camp”

Cuban musician and opposition figure Corgi Aguila Carrasco He finally left Cuba and arrived in Mexico this Monday, days after he was arbitrarily detained by state security officials at Havana airport, preventing him from traveling.

“I'm glad Castro got the hell out of the extermination camp.“, the singer of the rock band Borno's first words to Ricardo after arriving at the international airport in Mexico City, seems to be a trip of no return.

“They made me suffer a lot, so I won't come back, but it's my land,” the artist insisted. The video was recorded and uploaded to Facebook By Czech filmmaker and photographer Hana Zakrlova.

“They uprooted me from my land, but not by the roots.“Aquila warned. “I have my roots there… It's my motherland, it's my country, it's where I died, it's where I made my project.”

In her publication, Zakrlova celebrated the musician's arrival on Mexican soil: “Better late than never: Gorky Luis Águila Carrasco is free!”, and recalled that he was able to leave Cuba on the second attempt, because “the first time the police “arrested him without letting him board the plane” said.

“Stay tuned for our film documentary Permanent Gorky. We were filming the last years of Gorky's life in Cuba and planned to follow him in his involuntary exile. “Freedom to Cuba!” said the director.

The singer was arrested on May 3 by the Cuban regime's political policeThe official term used by authorities to prevent Cubans from traveling freely outside the country, saying it was “regularized” after banning flights to Mexico.

After officials from the Cuban Interior Ministry's Directorate of Identity, Immigration and Emigration informed him of their immigration “regularity,” Aguila protested the arbitrary decision and was immediately detained by the regime's repressive agents.

The artist was detained for more than 24 hours at the Santiago de Las Vegas police station near the airport. During that period, Aguila, suffering from epilepsy, was kept without medication and without food.

Before releasing him on the night of May 4, They imposed a fine of 2,000 pesos on a false charge of contempt..

Artists and human rights groups demanded his immediate release.

Corgi Aguila (Havana, 1968) is a writer of anthological rebel themes. Punk rockLike K Cuban commanderDedicated to the Dictator Fidel CastroAnd Tricky communistAddressed the Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso-Grau.

Furthermore, he is a vocal activist against the authoritarian Cuban regime, for which he has suffered numerous arrests and has been the victim of permanent repression by state security through threats and censorship.