Cuba is going through a severe economic crisis reflected in long lines to buy food and basic products, inflation and blackouts.
In the midst of the controversy over the planning of a march against the Cuban government, which it has already banned, one of its promoters wants to establish a challenge the day before.
The promoter of the opposition civic march in Cuba on November 15, Yúnior García, He announced this Thursday that he will walk alone and “in silence” the day before carrying a white rose and called on the followers “not to do anything that puts his physical integrity and that of other people at risk.”
The young man released a statement on his personal page on Facebook, where he specified that he intends to walk at three in the afternoon down the central Havana avenue of 23 to the iconic capital’s boardwalk as an act of “responsibility” and not of “heroism.”
Two days ago, the representative of the Archipelago virtual platform said that they were studying “how to minimize the risks of violence and eventual repression” on the 15th, “without renouncing” their right to demonstrate.
Today, García Aguilera resumed the request to the members of the group and the people who have joined the initiative to march for political rights in Cuba to avoid “any type of violent confrontation, any action that generates repression, any act that places them in danger ”.
He also returned to the example of the Afro-American activist Rosa Parks, who in 1955 changed the racial segregation laws in her country by refusing to change from an exclusive seat for whites on a bus.
The activist, one of those arrested on July 11 when massive anti-government protests broke out, stressed that the objective is to end the violence, demand the release of political prisoners and “find a civic path to achieve rights and build a new social pact. ”.
Archipelago requested to march on November 15 and received the refusal of the Government that considers it “illegal” and attached to a script of “regime change” against Cuba, while accusing the United States of financing and organizing the march.
Given the response of the opponents to continue with the call, the Prosecutor’s Office warned with criminal proceedings.
The march has been called in a difficult scenario in Cuba, which is going through a severe economic crisis reflected in long lines to buy food and basic products, a staggered inflation with the consequent increase in prices and blackouts.
The Cuban government attributes these problems to the US financial and trade embargo, hardened in the last administration of Donald Trump.
In Cuba, the rights to strike and demonstration are rarely contemplated outside state institutions and an act opposed to the Government has never been authorized. (I)
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