Havana/The Spanish citizen Martiño Ramos Soto, detained in Cuba after escaping to avoid serving a 13 and a half year prison sentence for raping a minor, was finally extradited back to his country this Wednesday.
Sources close to the process informed EFE that Ramos Soto boarded a plane to Madrid this afternoon after having voluntarily accepted his transfer to Spain to serve the prison sentence.
This 50-year-old professor and well-known political activist was arrested in Havana last November, in compliance with a request from the Provincial Court of Ourense and after a collaboration process between both countries.
A native of Ourense, he was sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison for sexual abuse of a minor student
At the time of his arrest, Ramos Soto was one of the ten names sought by the Spanish justice system.
A native of Ourense, he was sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison for sexually abusing a minor student, through sadistic practices, when the victim was between 12 and 16 years old.
In addition to being a preschool and primary education teacher, Ramos Soto is a former member of the extinct En Marea and known in his city, Ourense, for teaching music classes and for his activism.
The National Revolutionary Police (PNR) of Cuba seemed to be aware of the rapist’s entry into the country and maintained surveillance over his person, but did not immediately proceed to arrest him.
According to the Fugitive Section of the National Police, Ramos Soto is a native of Ourense, is 50 years old and was sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison for sexual abuse of a minor student, through sadistic practices, when the victim was between 12 and 16 years old.
Ramos Soto is a former militant of the extinct En Marea and known in his city, Ourense, for teaching music classes and for his activism.
Once he was sentenced in July 2025, Ramos Soto did not attend to the order to enter prison to serve his sentence. A national arrest warrant was then issued, although the agents already had indications that the convicted person was outside of Spain.
According to the police reconstruction of his escape, Ramos Soto traveled to Portugal in July to fly to Brazil from Lisbon. From there he traveled to Peru and then, finally, to Cuba. The Spanish police considered that the convicted man had some support on the island.
In addition to being a preschool and primary education teacher, Ramos Soto is a former member of the extinct En Marea and known in his city, Ourense, for teaching music classes and for his activism.
His inclusion on the list along with ten other fugitives – there are known drug traffickers, a murderer, a historical robber and several sexual offenders – is due, according to the Fugitive Section, to a “strategic” issue.
