The Cuban government has initiated within the island a violent offensive against the Partido Solidaridad Democratica (PSD). The PSD directors have been the target of harassment, relentless pursuit, arrests, threats and acts of repudiation, sponsored by the rapid action brigades, who are none other than agents of the Ministry of the Interior, trained in martial arts, simply in the art of killing, because there is no respite, space, or signs of life for any member of the opposition to the regime of the Castro brothers.
December 8- Members of the PSD were harassed by the police during a Mass at San Francisco de Asis Church. For making public pronouncements in front of the provincial capitol, two members of the PSD won the prize of being arrested.
January 27- Pablo Medina Garcia, Vice delegate of the PSD was summoned by the Ministry of the Interior. In the meantime, an act of repudiation (threats) was being held in front of his home. All fighters for the freedom of our homeland understand the purpose of this harassment: scaring the relatives of the members of the opposition to death.
February 13- Daisy Carcaces, provincial delegate of the PSD is subjected to a repudiation act by the rapid action brigades.
February 24- Americo Gonzalez, Humberto Illa, Humberto Calas and Juan Rufino, provincial delegates, were victimized by operatives right in front of their homes. This strategy is followed by the Ministry of the Interior to block any initiative to commemmorate the "Fallen Brothers" day.
February 24- Six PSD activists were arrested while patriotically depositing on the sea a flower wreath to the "Fallen Brothers".
January 23- Ivan Hernandez Carrillo, provincial delegate, is subjected to a repudiation act, and was arrested. He was forced to sign a conviction document.
February 21- Delegates Ivan Hernandez and Felix Navarro are arrested and abitrarily taken to the DTI, where they are threatened with accusations of illegal activity. They responded with an 8-day hunger strike.
February 23- PSD's delegate, Pedro Hildo Rojas is arrested in Perico by the DTI, which is an official agency that is not supposed to be involved in political matters.
February 24- Twenty activists are arrested in their homes. Among them was Hector Trujillo Pis, from the PSD.
February 10- Liliam Lorenzo Echevarria, PSD provincial delegate, Juan Carlos Fernandez, Juan Francisco Hernandez and Luz Divina Liz Pina were tackled by the Ministry of the Interior in Havana, after visiting the home of Hector Palacio Ruiz, president of the PSD.
February 18- Pablo Silva Cabrera, provincial delegate of the PSD is summoned to the police station at Baracoa beach, forced to sign a conviction document and labeled "dangerous".
January 9- Hector Palacio Ruiz, president of the PSD is arrested by the DTI, and taken to a cell without electricity or water until February 5 when he was transferred to the Villa Marista, where he remains in a windowless cell. Villa Marista has left a permanent scar in the souls of those who are, or have been, incarcerated there. When Cuba is liberated, and the world fully knows about the physical and mental tortures perpetrated there, there will be some who will still deny these atrocities. The dark souls of the executioners at Villa Marista will not inhabit even the most distant corner of heaven.
January 26- Fernando Sanchez Lopez, Vice-president of the PSD, along with Adolfo Fernandez Sains, Rogelio Travieso, and Vicente Escobar, all PSD executives were summoned by the Ministry of the Interior and indicted with accusations of threatening the government.
February 11- Gisela Delgado, PSD delegate, is summoned and questioned by the Ministry of the Interior.
February 21- Reinaldo Alfonso, PSD member, is arrested at the fifth unit of the Ministry of the Interior in Marianao.
February 24- An operative of the Ministry of the Interior stood guard at the home of Fernando Sanchez Lopez to block him from leaving his house that day.
Vicente Escobar was notified by officials from the Ministry that he could not leave his home on that day either. Carmelo Diaz Fernandez, Rogelio Travieso, Reynaldo Hernandez Cardona, Adolfo Fernandez and Gisela Delagado were told by the Ministry that they could not participate in a Mass given for the "Fallen Brothers".
These executives, delegates and members of the PSD, who are persecuted and arrested daily because of their peaceful struggle inside Cuba, let these accusations be known internationally through members of the exile community.