García is a 39-year-old playwright who has emerged as one of the most important voices in the Cuban opposition.
The Cuban playwright Yúnior García, one of the promoters of the frustrated demonstration last Monday in Cuba, unexpectedly traveled to Spain, they reported this Wednesday to the AFP Spanish Government sources.
“We confirm that he and his wife have arrived, with a tourist visa,” said the sources, without offering further details.
Since Sunday there was no news from García, leader of the opposition group Archipiélago, who was prevented that day from demonstrating on a major avenue in Havana.
A collaborator from Archipelago went to his house on Tuesday and received no response.
García is a 39-year-old playwright who has emerged as one of the most important voices of the Cuban opposition, in which artists have gained great importance.
He was the convener of the November 15 protest, frustrated by the authorities with a large deployment of the security forces, and he had lost track of him ever since.
As the protest was banned, García announced that he would march the day before, alone, through a central avenue in Havana, to minimize the risks of violence.
The reason for going alone was presented as “a personal decision”, because he could not communicate with his companions because they cut off his communications, he said.
“Marching is a human right, it is a constitutional right,” he said in an interview with the AFP in mid October.
The communist government accused him of being run by Washington, three months after the historic July 11 demonstrations.
In response to the accusations of being in the service of Washington, he replied: “My only job is with the State, which is paid by the Council of Performing Arts, with whom I work, and that my salary does not reach 4,000 pesos ( 166 dollars) “.
Born in Holguín (east), Yúnior García has long been known for his theatrical works and his scripts for television and cinema.
But after November 27, 2020, when hundreds of artists demonstrated demanding greater freedom of expression, he assumed another role even to his regret: he became the representative of a new generation critical of the Government, which includes artists, journalists independent and academic, most of them outside political parties.
And on July 11, when the island was rocked by massive spontaneous and unprecedented demonstrations since the 1959 revolution, it did not hesitate to participate. He tried to claim minutes on state television, but ended up in custody and was released the next day.
Yúnior García then chose to create Archipelago, a political debate group on Facebook that aims to be a laboratory for a “plural Cuba”, in the country where the only party allowed is the Communist party. The call for the November 15 protest was born among its almost 27,000 affiliates. (I)
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