Protests in Cuba: Miami joined the mobilizations against the Díaz-Canel government

07/11/2021 18:34

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Updated 07/11/2021 18:34

On 8th Street in Miami, at the famous Versailles restaurant,

Cubans began to gather

around 2 p.m. local time, in support of the protests in Cuba.

At that time, hundreds of Cuban North Americans were gathered at Versalles to support the demonstrations in Cuba and several patrol cars were guarding the protest and closed the street, reported the newspaper

El Nuevo Herald

in the city of Florida.

According to the outlet, the protesters held flags and

posters of "SOS Cuba"

and stopped the traffic to sing the notes of the national anthem.

"Freedom" and "Homeland and Life"

shouted in unison, several even cried with joy.

Norges Rodríguez @ norges14

The Cuban dictatorship passed away, you just have to bury it, seriously.

We are attending the wake of the oldest dictatorship in the hemisphere

😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/JSda49AjrK

- P😷tty m😷uth 😇 (@ John_Fletcher70) July 11, 2021

"It was time for people to go out into the streets.

The misery and hunger in Cuba already have to end, the repression and mistreatment of the people have to end.

I tell the people to go out into the streets, ”Yoselin Castro, a Cuban who was protesting at Versailles, told

El Nuevo Herald

.

”We have been living in miseries and needs for many years.

It was time to wake up, ”said Ronald Rodríguez, another protester.

Ramón Saúl Sánchez, president of the Democracy Movement,

urged his compatriots in Miami to join the protests

.

"I call everyone to the Versailles area (...) so that the world can see that their exile is giving support to the Cuban people," he said.

Miami journalist Ninoska Pérez Castellón said that the protest "

is the just claim of a people

that has been repressed, deceived, stolen from their future, and they have no other option but this."

Right now, Cubans in exile are concentrating on @VersaillesMiami Pat supporting those who protest in Cuba.

#SOSCuba #SosMatanzas pic.twitter.com/FW7YbWoIqu

- Norges Rodríguez (@ norges14) July 11, 2021

The well-known Cuban reggaeton player Yomil wrote on Twitter: “We were so hungry that we ate our fear.

My unconditional support for my people

and I cry c ... with pride to know that we are all waking up, for a country with a better future.

Come on, if you can # SOSCuba ”.

The writer Enrique del Risco, who resides in New York and

was heading to Time Square

in the afternoon to support the protests together with a group of Cubans, said that “it is surprising, not that they are protesting, but the massiveness and clarity of the slogans ”.

“They do not limit themselves to saying 'down ....' but they speak of democracy and freedom.

They ask for a change in a very clear way

, "he said.

Arrests and repression in the streets of Havana.

AFP photo

El Nuevo Herald

reported that several exile organizations asked the Cuban police forces not to repress the people who have come out to demonstrate in the streets.

“The Cuban people today have stood up for their freedom, they

are asking for the end of the regime

.

We ask the Cuban police and armed forces to protect that people and to put an end to that regime.

We also ask for the intervention of the United States to protect that people and put an end to that regime, ”said Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat, coordinator of the Assembly of the Resistance, an organization of Cuban exiles.

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