Rosa Maria Payá reveals to Tele Madrid the origin of a message. By Eva Belfrage.

Rosa Maria Payá reveals to Tele Madrid the origin of a message.

By Eva Belfrage

October 17, 2012

In a report by Tele Madrid in Diario da la Noche of the 15th of October, about the sentence to four years of Ángel Carromero, Rosa Maria Payá says the following on phone:

“From the mobile of Aron Modig a message was sent which said: Angel told me that they hit us and got us off the road.”
(In Spanish: "Desde el celular de Aron Modig se envió un mensaje que decia: Angel me dijo que nos dieron un golpe y nos sacaron de la carretera”)

This information By Rosa Maria Payá doesn’t tell when the message was sent and to whom. To judge from the content of the message it is most likely Aron Modig who sent it and nobody else from his cellphone.

Aron Modig did not tell anyone that he had sent that message, or that he had been informed by Ángel that they had been hit by a car because it was Ángel who knew. Aron Modig had, as he repeated many times, been asleep before the accident and unconscious for some time after the accident and if this is so he didn't know by himself that they were pursued and hit, but was informed perhaps in the hospital or in the police station in Bayamo by Ángel. Probably Aron Modig  wanted to protect Angel Carromero and let him decide what he wanted to tell in court. After all it was his trial. And Rosa Maria Payá may have respected that opinion, and decided to or been advised to reveal it only after the trial of Carromero.

A week or two after his arrest, Angel Carromero said in front of Cuban TV cameras  what the government wanted him to say, that they had not been pursued by any car. And in the courtroom this crucial point was not raised at all. Aware that he is a pawn in the hands of tyrants, who scrupulously play with lives, he may have opted for or been advised to never mention this, for the best possible outcome of the trial.

It didn’t help too much. He got four years instead of seven. Four years is a long time in Cuban prisons.

The Spanish government presumably played some role when it came to contacts with the defence of Carromero and in some negotiations with the Castro regime. We can therefore only hope that the Spanish government will manage to get Carromero out of Cuba as soon as possible and before he starts to show signs of malnourishment and succumbs to all the illnesses of the Cuban Gulag.

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