Havana, March 9. Young YouTuber Hilda Núñez Díaz, better known as Hildina, was released on Thursday after being held for several hours in Santiago de Cuba (east), as confirmed by her relatives on social networks.
“Hildina is already at home, she has been fined and threatened,” said a message posted on the influencer’s official Facebook account.
He also added that authorities told him his arrest was “for using social media to discredit the government.”
“She has no way to communicate because they have kept all her devices (mobile phone, laptop, etc.). She is very bad psychologically after all that they have put her through and treated like a criminal”, concludes the message.
Núñez Díaz was arrested after a police operation – involving more than 30 officers, according to relatives of the young woman – carried out around her home in Santiago de Cuba, and she was taken to a police station for questioning.
Hildina, who has more than 100,000 subscribers and whose videos exceed hundreds of thousands of views, previously warned on her YouTube channel that she had been pressured by state security to stop uploading content.
“(The agent) told me that I could not register in Havana, that if I registered in Havana I would have complications in my life (…) that I should think about it because I am a mother of a child,” she said. said in a video hung in February, after visiting the capital.
In December, the youtubeuse had also denounced on her channel having received a warning at the university where she teaches for the content of her videos, in which she shows the daily difficulties of the country, plunged into a deep economic crisis.
This is not the first arrest of an influencer in Cuba this year. On January 10, the young Sulmira Martínez, known as Salem Cuba, and who is dedicated to activism on her social networks, was also arrested.
According to the independent press, activists and dissidents, Martínez has since been in Villa Marista, a state security center. ECE
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