ANONYMOUS VICTIM. NEXT !!!

Juan Francisco Tellechea Pulido arrived in Mexico City with his tourist visa in 1950. He married a Mexican national and shortly afterwards he had his first child. The family then traveled to Cuba where he tried to make ends meet for two years, but seeing no improvement to their situation they decided to pack their luggage and go back to Mexico. Upon arriving at the port of Veracruz with his pregnant wife and two children he was detained because he lacked a Mexican visa. He was swiftly sent to prison. After a few days he escaped and joined his family; then Mr Tellechea started his personal tragedy. Whenever he found employment the former DIP (Direccion de Investigaciones Policiales) caught him and sent him to prison. Even though he had two Mexican children he could never obtain a work permit or a residency.

In 1957 his wife gave birth to Ivonne Tellechea Pliego, whom I first met in the Christmas of 1980 when she traveled to Cuba as a tourist; Ivonne; though born in Mexico could not secure a passport until she was 25; she was issued a re-entry permit and was subject to lengthy interrogations whenever she returned to her own country. She vividly remembers one occasion when she was taken "hostage" by the Mexican authorities to force her father to turn himself in. The neighboring houses were covered with snipers as if it were an effort to capture a drug lord.

Juan Francisco Tellechea Pulido, a fellow Cuban, died on January 1st 1995. No public apology has been made by the Mexican government, no letter of regret has been mailed to his children; he is just a bundle of yellowish papers in some obscure Mexican office or probably just one more name in binary language that conveniently covers that other face of immigration that Mr Jorge Ramos and the bourgeois communists so zealously keep from the public opinion. No Cuban flags are waved in his honor nor in honor of so many unknown Cuban Franciscos, no demonstrations at El Zocalo and no media coverage; even martyrdom is biased these days.