November 15 will be a symbolic day for Cubans.
But not for the same reasons and not with the same goals.
Dissent wants to overthrow the socialist regime.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel wishes to celebrate Havana's 502nd anniversary with forceful festivities, the reopening of borders to international tourists and counter the demonstrators.
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As for the vast majority of the inhabitants of the island, November 15 will be for them a day like any other, a day of shortages, made of long hours of waiting in order to hope to glean a little food.
Opponents of the socialist government have planned a "
civic march for change
".
Led by the Archipielago collective (Archipel) and their co-founder, the artist Yunior Garcia, the dissidents ask their compatriots to demonstrate
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