Cuban mother Amelia Calzadilla whose cries went viral receives death threats

Cuban mother Amelia Calzadilla received death threats via WhatsApp after the publication of a viral video in which she criticized the regime's management of the island, her father-in-law complained on Facebook on Wednesday.

Ruy Díaz Martínez said the defamation campaign against his family by State Security agents on social media, who "have access to private, banking, immigration and foreigner information" is ongoing.

"If their defamatory comments were true, why have the pertinent organs of the State not taken action? Simply because they are lying and trying to fabricate something that does not exist," claimed Diaz Martinez.

Calzadilla, who had a meeting with the authorities of El Cerro in Havana on Monday said she will not make any further statements until she receives answers to her demands.

Amelia Calzadilla, a mother of three children, lashed out last Thursday on social media against the leaders of the regime in Havana for the hardships suffered by Cuban families while the "socialist" state continues to build hotels for foreign tourism.

In addition to provoking a wave of online solidarity, her statements mobilized government sympathizers and the regime's "bots" known as "ciberclarias" which tried to disarm her speech.

The ruling communist party said that this is part of a "laboratory operation" of enemies of the supposed "revolutionary government" to achieve another "social explosion" that justifies the regime's exclusion from the recent Summit of the Americas.