Video: how they shouted 'murderer' and 'freedom' at a repressor of the Castro regime in the protests in Cuba

07/14/2021 10:20 PM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 07/14/2021 10:42 PM

In the midst of the unprecedented protests in Cuba, it was recorded how

"murderer" and "freedom"

were shouted at

Commander

Ramiro "Ramirito" Valdés

, one of the historical leaders and "heroes of the Cuban revolution" along with Fidel and Raúl. Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos and Ernesto Guevara, among others.

For opponents of the Castro regime today in the hands of Miguel Díaz-Canel, Valdés was "a bloody repressor" who today is linked to the feared squad of "black berets" that came out to repress the demonstrations.

The almost ninety-year-old Valdés - as a member of the old revolutionary guard (he was Ernesto "Che" Guevara's second in a guerrilla column and later led his own) - came out in support of Castroism after the protests broke out in Havana.

According to the international agency

EFE

, Valdés - targeted by the dissidents as a "repressor" - moved to eastern Cuba, the cradle of the "Cuban revolution" and also the epicenter of the current social emergence.

The people of Santiago de Cuba did not let the counterrevolutionary criminals at the service of the Empire comply with the indications received from their owners.

In just two hours they were neutralized.

#Cuba is one of the good patriots #PatriaOMuerteVenceremos.

#SomosCuba pic.twitter.com/Go8YMN52jU

- Ramiro Valdés Menéndez (@ValdesMenendez) July 12, 2021

The Santiago town of Palma Soriano was precisely one of the first points where protests broke out on Sunday, and that's where Valdés,

88

, went, who according to state media controlled by the Cuban regime "as soon as he broke into his

glorious The olive green uniform

was acclaimed by the people. "

The images that emerged before his arrival in the area, however, showed another panorama.

"Ramiro is a murderer"

, "Ramiro, they are starving us" and "go away" is heard amid the unthinkable shouting on an iron island to control any

hint of freedom of expression

.

"The Hero of the Republic of Cuba, the Moncadista, an expeditionary from Granma and

invader of Che Guevara's column

, addressed everyone, was interested in their concerns and after reiterating that not even in these hard times does the Revolution abandon its children, He asked them to go home, and this happened without delay, "says the official chronicle, although - reported EFE - there are no videos available to illustrate the story.

Quite the contrary, in fact.

The protests on the island

The protests began this Sunday when thousands of Cubans took to the streets in Havana and other parts of the island to protest shortages, high food prices and power cuts.

In the exhaustive biography of Ernesto Guevara written by the American journalist

Jon Lee Anderson, it

is mentioned that "Ramirito" was "Che's" trusted lieutenant and that, according to Guevara, he resembled Félix Dzerjinski,

the founder of the KGB.

The current protests in Cuba could make history, since it is the first time that a large group of Cubans have taken to the streets to protest against the regime since the famous "Maleconazo" of 1994.

"As if pandemic outbreaks had not existed throughout the world,

the Cuban-American mafia, paying very well

, on social networks to influencers and youtubers, has created a whole campaign ... and has called for demonstrations all over the world. country, '' replied President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

From Granma, the official media of the Castro regime, they maintained: "There were disturbances with the presence of

criminal elements that our people rejects,

and they have tried to manipulate people and generate pseudo-movements in order to form a political opposition."

After the protests and repression in Cuba, President Alberto Fernández considered that "these things have to be resolved by the peoples" and said he did not know "the dimension of the problem" in the Caribbean island, although he was very critical of what he considered an economic blockade. to Cuba from the United States.

"In the G20 I asked that the blockades in the world be ended. The one who suffers it is not a government, but the people. In the midst of a pandemic, maintaining blockades is the least humanitarian thing that exists," said Fernández and was interpreted on the island as a support to the regime.

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