Raul Castro's government has rejected a statement that the death of dissident Juan Soto Wilfredo Garcia, 46, was due to beating by the police to arrest him on May 5 in the Leoncio Vidal Park in the city of Santa Clara, as claimed by various opposition groups. According to authorities, Soto died of "natural" death on 8 May in the provincial hospital Castro Arnaldo Milian due to acute pancreatitis which caused multiple organ failure.
"There were no signs of internal or external violence," says the note from the Government, ensuring that everything is a "campaign" to discredit encouraged by "counterrevolutionary elements." The dissent persists in his claims that police brutality was what led to the death of the opponent.
Yesterday, a group of dissidents led by Guillermo Fariñas Sakharov Prize rejected the government statement and demanded an "open and transparent investigation of the case" by "internationally renowned forensic." Soto was a member of the Central Opposition Coalition and anti-totalitarian Polo Kingdom, two small anti-Castro organizations in the center of the island, according to the dissent was a virtual death "murder." The government says it has made biased "the lie that this death was the result of an alleged beating that would have inflicted interior enforcement." According to the official, Soto was arrested on May 5 "for disturbing the peace" led to a police station and released three hours later "without any impact." The next day - as long as the authorities, he entered the hospital with severe abdominal pain caused by acute pancreatitis, detected also "other underlying diseases" such as cardiomyopathy, diabetes and chronic hepatitis.
"The pathology tests carried out the deceased's death threw a wild-type shock created as a preliminary cause multifactorial, multisystem organ failure due to pancreatitis," said the official statement, published yesterday in the newspaper Granma and read on the main television news . The government says that Soto was "criminal and disorderly conduct, theft and serious injuries" and accuses him of being linked to "elements who used it for their provocative activities." No family has spoken publicly until now, but the opposition says the regime is under pressure to not speak as well as eyewitnesses to the beating.
The regime insists there are "relentless campaign of vilification" encouraged by "external and internal enemies" and amplified by the media in the U.S. and Europe, whose objective is "to undermine the Cuban reality and undermine the international prestige of the revolution." 
"There were no signs of internal or external violence," says the note from the Government, ensuring that everything is a "campaign" to discredit encouraged by "counterrevolutionary elements." The dissent persists in his claims that police brutality was what led to the death of the opponent.
Yesterday, a group of dissidents led by Guillermo Fariñas Sakharov Prize rejected the government statement and demanded an "open and transparent investigation of the case" by "internationally renowned forensic." Soto was a member of the Central Opposition Coalition and anti-totalitarian Polo Kingdom, two small anti-Castro organizations in the center of the island, according to the dissent was a virtual death "murder." The government says it has made biased "the lie that this death was the result of an alleged beating that would have inflicted interior enforcement." According to the official, Soto was arrested on May 5 "for disturbing the peace" led to a police station and released three hours later "without any impact." The next day - as long as the authorities, he entered the hospital with severe abdominal pain caused by acute pancreatitis, detected also "other underlying diseases" such as cardiomyopathy, diabetes and chronic hepatitis.
"The pathology tests carried out the deceased's death threw a wild-type shock created as a preliminary cause multifactorial, multisystem organ failure due to pancreatitis," said the official statement, published yesterday in the newspaper Granma and read on the main television news . The government says that Soto was "criminal and disorderly conduct, theft and serious injuries" and accuses him of being linked to "elements who used it for their provocative activities." No family has spoken publicly until now, but the opposition says the regime is under pressure to not speak as well as eyewitnesses to the beating.
The regime insists there are "relentless campaign of vilification" encouraged by "external and internal enemies" and amplified by the media in the U.S. and Europe, whose objective is "to undermine the Cuban reality and undermine the international prestige of the revolution."
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