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June 4, 2001



Denouncement to OAS of the Girl Held in Cuba

NewsMax.com. June 4, 2001.

SAN JOSÉ DE COSTA RICA, -- "The case of the 11 year old girl, Sandra Becerra Jova, whom the regime of La Habana does not allow to leave Cuba to reunite with her parents, residents of Brazil, literally constitutes kidnapping of a minor", denounced the exiled Cuban jurist Dr. Claudio Benedí Beruff, director of the "Junta Patriótica Cubana" (Patriotic Cuban Assembly), in a public statement made to the participating chancellors of the XXXI General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), which is being held in this capitol.

The little girl, Sandra, is the daughter of Cuban engineers, Vicente Becerra and Zaida Jova, both of whom are 38 years old, and are completing their postgraduate studies in the University of Campinas, 100 km. from the City of São Paulo. The married couple decided to stay permanently in Brazil after the birth of a new son, Daniel, who is now 3 years old, which automatically gave the entire family residency status in Brazil. Sandra's parents decided to go public with the case of their daughter being held after 4 years of unsuccessful and humiliating dealings with the Castro regime.

This case has been given coverage on well known means of media in Brazil and was taken to the Brazilian chancellor last April, a dispatch was sent to formally inform the Cuban chancellor in the hopes of officially interceding so that Sandra could be reunited with her parents and brother. The negative response from La Habana is increasing the annoyance in Brazil.

Last week, the Municipal Assembly of Campinas asked the Brazilian chancellor to firmly renew his reclamation to "shorten the suffering of the family and to achieve the liberation of Sandra", in accordance with her parents' wishes. It has now come to light that there are several other married Cuban couples in the universities, studying in Brazil, that are going through a similar situation, but until now they have kept silent out of fear of reprisals against their children that remain in Cuba.

In a declaration made to the Brazilian press the engineer, Zaida Jova, mother of Sandra, stated that the same regime from La Habana that organized the massive mobilization of people to reclaim the return of the boy, Elián González, to Cuba, in the name of "family reunification", is the one that "cruelly maintains me separated from daughter for the past four years". In San José de Costa Rica, Dr. Claudio Benedí has also requested that the Interamerican Commission of Human Rights take a stand on this issue, to denounce before the world this injustice, which is simply another example of the "instituted violation of human rights" enforced by Cuban communism over the defenseless population.

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