Ramón Rodríguez Azahares

“I learned that the main responsibility of a technician was to stand up for and build with quality, but at that time it was customary to build with goals. So, the technician was generally not in charge of the work. The head of the work was responsible and we were subordinates. Because of the goal, they had to finish certain works in a relatively short period of time. From my point of view, ordinary works had to be completed with poor quality and I was in opposition to that. // I was even accused of intentionally slowing down the development of the word because I stood up for building with quality. // For that reason, one day, unfairly, they tried to transfer me, which would have had a serious impact on my relationship with my household, transportation, and work performance (because I already had some experience there and knowledge from the base). I was prepared to take on any type of work anywhere. But due to the whims of other people, they wanted to move, to hurt me illegally. I didn’t agree and so I lost my job. They kicked me out for disobedience.”

“There was even a conspiracy to end the life of Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina in prison through other prisoners who existed here. An officer from the MININT (Ministry of the Interior) was summoned and he gathered together some political prisoners with criminal connotations sentenced to up to thirty years in prison so that they could end the life of Néstor Rodríguez because he would later continue to be a problem between prisoners. This was known and reported. When this occurred, some of the prisoners who were summoned to commit the crime did not agree with it. Of course, they couldn’t express it, but they sent it to a boy there inside the prison, who then sent it to his wife. Unfortunately, his wife did not play the appropriate role and failed to inform her family and the crime was carried out. Luckily, within the prison itself, other prisoners intervened to prevent his murder. They even fractured his jaw… one of these highly dangerous prisoners who had been imprisoned; he was a soldier and police officer in Havana and was imprisoned in the Guantánamo Complex. Notice that this was planned and coordinated. The re-educator who was assigned to Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina (who really should not be missing because he is the one who has the train the inmates in the morning and gives them the tasks that correspond to each one) did not go to work that day. When Néstor was unconscious and bleeding, lying on the floor, no one came to help him. There was no prisoner, no re-educator, there was nothing. When he regained consciousness around twelve o’clock in the morning, stammering because he had both of his jaws fractured, there was no soldier, there was no guard. At one in the afternoon, they had not picked him up to take him to the infirmary. Note that it was planned that other prisoners would kill him in prison.”