Havana/Cuban journalist Armando Campuzano, exiled in Canada since 2017, denounced “a rigged trial” against his daughter Wendolín. “They are giving her two years, which she will serve starting today (Tuesday) in the El Guatao women’s prison, in Havana,” she said in a video uploaded to her social networks.
“It was a false sentence, for me,” the communicator insisted, recalling that the Prosecutor’s Office was asking for six years in prison for trumped-up charges. According to their version, officers of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) claimed a location that the Government had assigned them, but during the trial, the accusation remained in the alleged attack on an internal order officer. The charges “are pure rubbish, a mere excuse to vent all his anger and hatred against my daughter.”
Campuzano expressed his concern about the fate of his daughter in “the dungeons with these henchmen who are capable of anything.” However, he stressed that he will continue “denouncing Díaz-Canel and all the murderers… along with all of us free Cubans, exhibiting the abuses they are committing against the people.”
Before the trial, Wendolín denounced on social networks the “threat and intimidation” he suffered at his home from two PNR officers and one from State security.
Wendolín, after hearing the sentence, informed his father that he had the firm intention of “standing” (starting a hunger strike). Campuzano exposed the anomalies of the trial by explaining that it took place on April 15, however “the sentence was not handed down at the end, it was postponed for 15 days, then it was not given, the entire month of May was allowed to pass and today, June 2, the final sentence is given.”
The announcer, who collaborated for more than 30 years on Cuban Television, insists that the trial against his daughter was in retaliation for the book he published in 2025 Cuba, the Titanic of the Caribbeanin which he denounces the “failures, abuses and fallacies” of the regime.
Before the trial, Wendolín denounced on social media the “threat and intimidation” he suffered in his home from two PNR officers and one from State security. The woman claimed that she was facing prosecution for two crimes without having done anything.
Wendolín’s case “becomes one of the more than 1,200 political prisoners or prisoners of conscience who are suffering in the dungeons of the dictatorship,” said the communicator, who mentioned Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maykel Castillo Osorbo.
Human Rights Watch warned last February that the Government of Cuba has used abuse, harassment of families of political prisoners, incommunicado confinement and mistreatment of detainees for decades. Based on data from Cubalex or Prisoners Defenders, it is stated that at least 203 people were arbitrarily detained between January and June 2025, and that as of October, the country had nearly 700 political prisoners. Likewise, HRW cites Justicia 11J to point out that 359 people related to the 11J protests remained in prison, with sentences of up to 22 years.
