They arrested YouTuber Dina Stars during an interview on the crisis in this country

“Security is outside. I have to get out.” Cuban youtuber’s words Dina stars they opened coverage of tension during an interview he was conducting live for Spanish television. As he spoke about the crisis in the country and criticized the government, amid the protests of recent days on the island, the police went to pick her up at the house.

The dramatic episode was recorded in front of the cameras of the show “Tout est un mensonge”, which airs on Channel 4. While Cuban artist Yotuel, who was also part of the conference, spoke, the influencer started gesturing from Havana, while in the background movement and shadows were visible in a curtained window.

At that point, presenter Marta Flich gave her the floor and Dina Stars stepped out with a worried face: “Security is broken. I must leave. I will leave my friend. “

As the camera moved, the driver asked the friend, “Can we hear what they are saying?” We don’t want to put you in danger.

After a few minutes of silence and everyone’s surprise, Dina Stars reappeared on the screen, but only for a second. “I have to go”He repeated.

When asked if they were about to take her into custody, she replied: “I don’t know, they told me to go with them.”

“I hold the government responsible for anything that may happen to me”, were the last words of the program before the astonished look of the presenter.

A few hours earlier, the young woman had said on her social networks that she had received a summons from the government. “The people from the Minint (Ministry of the Interior) just called me on the phone when they summoned me to “meet”. I told them no. They told me they were going to give me a subpoena. As soon as it arrives, I will attend it with my head held high. I have nothing to hide”.

Before the arrival of the Police, the young YouTuber who uses her networks to denounce the political crisis in Cuba criticized the Government: “We haven’t believed in any diet for a long time. The President of Cuba does not represent us. “

Since last Sunday, Cuba has been plunged into a series of protests against the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel due to the fatigue of citizens due to the health crisis caused by the coronavirus, the shortage of food and medicine and the blackouts. and the lack of the internet they have reported in some of the more humble regions over the past few days.

This Tuesday morning, the content creator spoke with tears in her eyes on Instagram, where she has about 65,000 subscribers.

“I didn’t sleep with one eye, I couldn’t sleep. I never thought I would feel what was happening in my country as much as I do. I feel like I cry all the time. I’m scared but for my mother, otherwise I would be in the street screaming, “he said.

“But you can’t stop. You have to resist. Change is fast approaching,” he asked.

In the past few hours, Spain’s ABC newspaper correspondent Camila Acosta has been arrested in Cuba after covering historic protests against the regime that governs that country.

According to this newspaper, the journalist was intercepted in Havana as she left her home to carry out a personal procedure.

At the end of the day on Sunday, the correspondent suffered the blocking of WhatsApp and the Internet, like many colleagues and citizens, a strategy of the regime led by Miguel Díaz-Canel so that he does not transcend what is happening on the island, especially abroad.

Demonstrations and repression

Cuban authorities have cracked down on strong protests that have reoccurred in various cities in Cuba due to the pandemic and the country’s worst economic crisis in the past 30 years.

They have deployed the formidable “black berets” brigade, the elite group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), and there have been dozens of violent arrests of dissidents, artists and independent journalists.

Organizations such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and Amnesty International have denounced “the lack of guarantees for freedom of expression”.

For its part, the organization Reporters Without Borders included this year Díaz Canel in its gallery of “predators of press freedom”.

The report says independent journalists in Cuba are monitored by agents who try to limit their freedom of movement, arrest them and erase information they have. Thus, in the latest index on press freedom, Cuba ranks 171st out of a total of 180 countries.