They still did not define the place, they only knew that they would meet on Monday, February 17 in Mexico City. the doctor Hazael Toledo Matus, Mayor of a community located in Oaxaca, called L’Espinal, was waiting for the call that would confirm the time and place where they would meet.
They had only told him that they had good news about the project he had undertaken and that it involved discoveries in genomic medicine, a branch of science that would be able to detect the appearance of future diseases.
But they also warned him that they could not continue talking on the phone: “I can’t tell you any more things around here, but I’ll come and talk”, He told her and closed the call.
Then nothing. His friend, the one who had summoned him to the capital, the doctor Hector Alejandro Cabrera, Also a native of L’Espinal, and with whom he had shared medical research projects for more than 10 years, never arrived: “I didn’t know anything anymore and after that I didn’t talk to him again.”
while Hazael waiting in Mexico, the doctor Hector Alejandro Cabrera he was being questioned somewhere near Miami airport. The reason: when he was about to leave this city he had traveled to take his daughter to Disneyland, US government agents found on their phones photographs of the plates of the act of a U.S. government agent.
These were the initial tests with which United States armaria 1 accusation against the Oaxacan scientist, who is accused of being a “foreign agent” who was carrying out espionage work for President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
(…)Alejandro Cabrera he was arrested on Sunday 16 February 2020 and due to the coronavirus pandemic his case was left in limbo; but, the hearing of his next trial was finally fixed and MILLENNIUM had access to documents revealing that Cabrera must accept his responsibility no later than next Friday, January 15th.
Despite the evidence that the government of United States he says they have against the Mexican scientist, family, friends, colleagues and people in his village say 10 months after his arrest that it is a medical conspiracy: a scientific persecution.
“My theory has always been that I knew something,” says hard, dry Hazael Toledo.
The Russian plot
File number one is on the shelves of the South Florida District Court 1: 20-cr-20129-DMM. On the initial sheet of the file is written in black pen and italics a statement: “Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fonts. Conspiracy to act as a foreign agent without notifying the United States government”. Translation without legal terminology: spy.
As a history of the Cold War, government agents of United States The facts are as follows: “A scientist who worked doing research on the heart in Singapore, constantly traveled between Russia, where he had studied microbiology, Germany, where (he was) a consultant in a company and in Mexico where he led a civil organization to promote young scientists, in his village, the Espinal “.
At the age of 35, he was married to a young woman from his village, with whom he had two children. However, the alleged hidden story was that the Mexican had also married a woman in Russia and then moved to Germany, where they stayed when Cabrera he went to work in Singapore. And here would begin the supposed spy plot.
According to the complete file he reviewed MILLENNIUM, In March 2019, while Alejandro Cabrera was in Singapore, the wife and two daughters traveled from Germany to Russia. When they tried to return to Germany Russian customs officials did not allow them to return.
Now suppose, because there are no further details, that it was to put pressure on the Mexican scientist, as from that moment on he was contacted by a Russian officer. “(The agent) told Cabrera that he could help his family get out of Russia,” reads one of the documents.
From that moment the mission of Cabrera would have been taking pictures in a vehicle owned by a government agent United States in a residential area of Miami. The scientist would not have been discreet and the American agent realized, so he gave notice to the authorities, who arrested the compatriot in February 2020, when he was about to board a flight to the City of Mexico.
Indeed, when they checked his Mexican wife’s mobile phone, they found that the files of the American agent were in the deleted files. Cabrera he was arrested and taken to a detention center in Miami.
“And what they accuse him of and how they accuse him, because he got into a private one and took a picture, that is, he’s very stupid, he’s an investigator,” he laughs. Hazael, Recalling the version that his friend is a Russian spy. “If they gave him this task, since the plaque could have been engraved, do it differently, but it’s very childish, it’s a scientific conspiracy, a scientific persecution.”
Judgment is resumed
On October 26, 2020 he notified that the trial against Hector Alejandro Cabrera would be resumed because of the pandemic of covid-19 there was a delay in all trials in the United States.
According to the latest document entered, the defense scientist Oaxaca has until January 15 to accept responsibility, while the jury trial will resume on February 8, at 09:00. If convicted, he could face life in prison.
However, for the past 10 months in El Espinal Oaxaca, actions have been taken to support the funding of the researcher’s defense.
Rusbelt Fonts, President of Per Oaxaca More Researchers, same that founded Alejandro Cabrera to promote stays of Mexican scientists in other countries, he trusts the innocence of his cousin and describes for a long time all the actions promoted by Cabrera in El Espinal.
“I started to put everything together with sleep, I had nothing, and Hector it was very important because he became a manager in universities, he was a key piece with management issues. It has been a very strong, very great struggle, which we have fought. These guys need support and they are talented young people, “he says. They currently support 27 young people.
He says that making an accusation is a delicate matter, but maintains the position of scientific persecution against Cabrera: “I mean it like this: two investigations worldwide in the matter of heart attacks, with this work of Héctor many people benefited in Mexico and the highly acclaimed method has been applied and the other research is the involvement it had with FEMSA with an ointment that regenerates the skin. ”
On the Facebook page of For Oaxaca More Researchers there are publications announcing the sale of cups with a printed photograph of the scientist in the middle with a dress and tie surrounded by engravings of pink flowers and the phrase “We are with you Hector”; in the comments you can read messages of support from students, students, scientists and the Espinal community in general.
Rusbelt Fonts admits that in the end they know that the figure of a defense abroad is too expensive, but the grain of sand will continue to contribute from the Spinal.
Guieniza Cabrera Fonts, sister of Héctor Alexander, comments that she cannot reveal details of the process, but she says to MILLENNIUM who are on hold and leave the matter in the hands of God and the lawyer, because in reality it is he who is at the forefront of the situation.
She is the only one who has seen him since he was arrested and remembers that one night before going to see him the authorities ordered the closure of visitors due to a pandemic; however, he managed to see him through a window overlooking his room in the detention center and greeted him. He says they are currently resuming the process so that the Mexican scientist’s parents can obtain a visa and visit him.
Meanwhile in the detention center Héctor Alejandro continues teaching and taking refuge in books awaiting his trial.
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