Cuba Yotuel Romero: "If there is blood these days, reconciliation in Cuba will be much more difficult"
Album Cubans take to the streets against the Government
"Raúl participates in a meeting of the Political Bureau"
. The front page of the daily
Gramna
, the official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), warned all Cubans yesterday
that Raúl Castro is back
, although many fear that he never left. The youngest of the Castros went on Sunday to the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the PCC to "analyze the provocations orchestrated by
counterrevolutionary elements organized and financed from the United States
with destabilizing purposes."
This is not just a news story. Retired from the PCC Congress last April, Raúl's reappearance not only measures the magnitude of the social outbreak that led thousands of Cubans, in more than 60 municipalities, to take to the streets to shout for freedom, for food and for medicines. It also sends the message to the Cubans that the Army General, former president and former leader of the PCC
is in the front line of command of the national repression
launched by the Castro regime with all its forces: black berets, red berets, policemen , shock brigades, soldiers and paramilitaries.
The order is to
take to the streets to intimidate and continue the persecution
against protesters, artists, dissidents and opponents. At all costs, as confirmed by the images that appear from different enclaves on the island when the blocked Internet allows it.
"
Raúl endured what he could
. The hoax that he had fled to Venezuela angered him enormously, he has always prided himself as a strong man and not a coward, a man on the front line of combat. He let Miguel Díaz-Canel show his public face, but the Demonstrations do not stop, the spirits for the disappeared permeate the mothers' sensibilities and their words to the top civil political leadership of the country are necessary. From now on, their advice has become public orders and not
complying with them or doing them wrong implies consequences
", sources close to Cuban power explained to EL MUNDO.
Leader and boss
"It is to mark who is the leader and is the boss, the normal thing in these cases," corroborates the Cuban historian Armando Chaguaceda.
The reappearance of Raúl
confirmed the existence of divisions in the high political leadership
, according to different observers, and the unifying effect that his mere presence produces in the revolutionary hierarchy. His presence seems essential to maintain the repression, beyond the last confession of Díaz-Canel ("The Cuban revolution is
not going to turn the other cheek for those who attack it
").
Videos, photographs and testimonies collected with great difficulty throughout the country, since the intermittent blackout in the telephone internet continues,
confirm
the brutality reported from the first day
, even the existence of fatalities is investigated.
The Movement of San Isidro, the Group of 27-N and the NGO Cubalex have documented
at least 150 arrests
, but even in the smallest and most remote towns they have taken young people who took to the streets on the Sunday that has changed to always the history of Cuba.
Estimates of 44 independent civil society organizations and media, such as Amnesty International and Prisoners Defenders, extend the number of detainees to hundreds.
All of them yesterday demanded that the Cuban government stop the violence.
The police have
also released some of those arrested during the first hours of the skirmish
, such as the priest José Castor Álvarez.
"Trying to avoid violence, I was hit with a (baseball) bat," explained the Catholic father, who had a blunt head wound.
Among the latest victims is a famous youtuber, Dina Stars
, arrested when she was making a statement for a Spanish television.
"We demand their release and that of all those detained for peacefully demonstrating," announced the San Isidro Movement.
The siege against independent journalists, in charge of telling the world and their country what is really happening with the help of citizens who record and photograph the protests,
has tightened even more in recent hours
. Those who are not detained have had their communication services cut off or are surrounded, in front of their homes, by State Security forces.
Propaganda is once again a fundamental factor for the Cuban revolution
, hence the effort to try to impose, together with his friends and international allies, a story far removed from reality.
According to all of them, the massive protests on Sunday were not a social outbreak, but "riots", as Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez insisted to lay the propaganda line.
An outbreak is impossible, according to this rhetoric,
because Cuban society is revolutionary
and those who are fighting are mercenaries or confused.
Propaganda that is also exhibited on Cuban channels, in which they have come to ensure that the videos seen on social networks
were made in Argentina after their national team won the Copa América soccer team
.
The Catholic Church, a close ally of Raúl Castro in other times, does not agree: "As pastors we are concerned that the answers to these claims will
be the immobility that contributes to giving continuity to the problems without solving them
."
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