Donaida Pérez Paseiro and Loreto Hernández García may choose exile after pressure

Opposition figure Donaida Pérez Paseiro said State Security officers are pressuring her and her husband, Loreto Hernández García, to speed their departure from Cuba.

Pérez Paseiro said agents have insisted that the process be accelerated regardless of which country receives them. She interprets the pressure as an effort to prevent the couple from resuming activism on the island.

Jorge Luis García, known as Antúnez and Hernández García’s brother, confirmed that both told him about approaches by political police. According to his account, the couple decided to accept exile because of their deteriorating health and prison conditions.

Pérez Paseiro and Hernández García are serving sentences of eight and seven years, respectively, for participating in the July 11, 2021, protests in Placetas. Both remain held at the Guamajal prison complex in Villa Clara.