In the United States, a human rights hotline in Cuba has received more than 200 complaints

The phone line activated by Radio Martí To receive complaints about human rights violations in Cuba, he has received – since its launch in August 2018 – a total of 208 complaints, reported today that government entity that issues to the states -United. for the Caribbean island.

Between August 14, 2018, at its inauguration, this "direct line of the rights of the man", and January 7th Radio Martí received 439 telephone calls, including 218 from Cuba, of which 208 were "legitimate denunciations confirmed", said this entity in a statement.

These denunciations were transmitted on Radio Martí and sent to the organization. House of Liberty, which promotes freedom and democracy in the world and is headquartered in Washington.

According to the operators of the line, during the last months of November and December, a "rebound in the number of calls from the island", some of them warned against "arbitrary arrests".

Freedom House and Radio and TV Martí jointly announced last August in Miami a "strategic alliance" with what they described as an "extraordinary recovery" of human rights violations over the world. island.

With this system of denunciations, House of Liberty he can "systematizing information" that he receives every day from TV Martí and that he reports cases directly to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights or to the United Nations.

Radio and TV Martí depend on the Cuban Office of Communications in Cuba (OCB) of the US government, whose director since June is the journalist and former Mayor of Miami, Tomás Regalado.

According to a survey conducted in 2017 by the University of Guanajuato (Mexico), the listeners of Radio Marti were then two million.

The station began operating in 1985 under the US Broadcasting Act, promulgated under the chairmanship of Ronald Reagan.

At the announcement of "strategic alliance" between Radio and Television Martí and Freedom House last August, the director of Freedom House for Latin America, Carlos Ponce, pointed out that people " are very afraid "to turn to organizations that are in favor of human rights in Cuba," because when they go there, they see them enter and then they are persecuted ".

With the telephone line, they seek to establish a communication that avoids the "risks" for whistleblowers and "the impunity to which the Cuban regime is accustomed to overcome," said Ponce.