A Cuban who lived 30 years in Belarus was deported for protesting against Lukashenko’s regime

The 55-year-old Cuban Roberto Valdes Casanueva lives in Belarus For 30 years, he was deported to Cuba, reach Svaboda.org, the digital portal of the Belarusian service of Radio Free Europe / Radio Libertad (RFE / RL).

Valdis Casanueva was arrested on 11 November 2020 after participating in a demonstration After the Belarusian opposition denounced electoral fraud, which Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power in the former Soviet republic since 1994, the winner will be announced.

Valdis Casanova has lived and worked in Belarus for 30 years. He is fluent in Russian and has three children, one of whom is a minor. According to the Belarusian opposition portal, he worked as a graphic designer disidente.by, And a member of the Union of Belarusian Designers. After more than a year in a detention center, He was deported to Cuba on December 10.

Belarusian opposition leaders denounced Cuban’s deportation on social media. Franak Viakorca, Consultant Svetlana Tiganovskaya, the leader of the Belarusian opposition in exile, described how Heartbreaking: Valdis Casanueva bids farewell to his youngest son at the airport.

The hole. Cuban citizen Roberto Valdes Casanueva bids farewell to his son before his forced deportation from Belarus. a year ago, pHe was arrested after a peaceful protest and spent a year in prison. He has a family and three children in Belarus. He has lived here for 30 years, ” Viacorka wrote on his Twitter account.

The Cuban tried for a long time to become a Belarusian citizen, but has been consistently rejected, according to a report by Radio MartiBased on his interview with her, Svaboda Belarus met Valdis Casanova in prison in December 2020.

He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Havana and married a Belarusian woman in Cuba, more than 30 years ago.. She had to return home to take care of her sick mother, and Valdis Casanueva went to live with his wife. He was married three times and is now divorced.

Belarusian Vadim Sukhoides said that Cuban criticized Lukashenko, an ally of the Havana regime, from the beginning, and said that In Belarus, what happened in Cuba was repeating itself.

Cuban description Ernesto Guevara Like the killer who shot the prisoners. on Fidel Castro He said he promised elections, but there were never again democratic elections on the island.