MIAMI, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Human rights activists say they support a Cuban man whose drunken plea for food in a video posted on YouTube resulted in a two-year jail sentence.
Juan Carlos Gonzalez Marcos, 48, also known as Panfilo, was convicted of "pre-criminal social endangerment" after video of him jumping into the frame of a music documentary being filmed in Havana while shouting, "What we need here is a little bit of jama (Cuban Spanish slang for food)!'' became a YouTube sensation, El Nuevo Herald, Miami, reported Tuesday.
"We need food! We're hungry here! Listen to what Panfilo tells you from Cuba: food!'' Gonzalez says in another close-up.
The Herald said Gonzalez was arrested Aug. 4 after another of video of him, again appearing intoxicated, was shown on Miami television in which he reportedly performed a street rap in which he said the police were going to put him "away."
"This incident was unexpected and came as a surprise because the protagonist was not a political dissident nor a person trying to defend a position or gain popularity,'' human rights advocate Jorge Salcedo of Boston told the newspaper.
