Q&A Who is who in the outbreak of Cuba
Cuba Raúl Castro is at the forefront of the repression
The repressive plan launched by the Cuban dictatorship since the very afternoon of the historic July 11 has suffocated, for the moment, the social outbreak that has already changed Cuba.
The brutal repression on Sunday has given way to the militarization of its streets
, to the persecution and detention of suspects, even in their own homes, from where they are forcibly removed.
The strategy, for which the Castro brothers' dictatorship prepared for half a century, is also seasoned with
measures to mitigate national boredom
, both with a truce in electricity cuts and with the distribution of chicken and oil in different parts of the world. country.
The first fatality recognized by the Government is
Diubis Tejeda
, 35, killed in Arroyo Naranjo, on the outskirts of Havana.
The man was protesting outside the police station in one of the many demonstrations on Sunday and Monday.
The Interior Ministry released its alleged police file, with a history of theft to strengthen the story that the protesters are groups of criminals, antisocial, mercenaries and confused.
Rumors regarding other deaths have not yet been confirmed due to the
information blackout imposed by the Government
.
One woman did manage to record with her phone the police assault on her home in Cárdenas, with several children inside, which ended up with her husband wounded and detained.
It is a municipality of Matanzas, the province that is suffering the most from the wave of the pandemic.
Informational blackout
The deployment of police officers with
long weapons, soldiers armed with baseball bats and sticks, black berets, riot police and shock brigades
, even called by force in their work centers, has intimidated the population, which is also in "dark " without Internet.
The "communications blackout", denounced to the United Nations by social organizations,
has disconnected Cubans from reality and has broken the chain reaction of last Sunday
, where enthusiasm grew at the pace of the videos that flowed through social networks . The propaganda does the rest on Cuban television, capable of attributing some of the concentrations to Argentine fans celebrating the Copa América.
With the arrest of at least seven independent journalists and the siege against others, it is also difficult to determine the dimension of the social outbreak, which according to the independent electronic media 14 y Medio
has led to the arrest or retention of more than 5,000 people
. Cubalex has also certified the capture of 200 dissidents or activists. The detainees were not only arrested in the streets, they were also searched house to house.
"First they arrested and interrogated whoever they had at hand. Now, selectively, they
attack those they identify as very active in the protests
. Collaterally they threaten one by one at work, on the block (block), where they can, the rest. of the participants. Many will be fired from the workplace if they worked in the public sector and those who worked in the private sector or were entrepreneurs will see administrative sanctions and the confiscation of assets fall.
They will try to head off any other demonstration by making a selective purge
", sources close to Cuban power reveal to EL MUNDO.
Cast of chicken and oil
In parallel to the repressive force, the revolution has begun to distribute chicken and oil, disappeared from the stores. "In Santiago de Cuba (second city in the country, to the east of the island) began to arrive on Sunday night and the power cuts, which lasted four and eight hours, have also disappeared.
Here there is no such political conscience as Yes, there is in Havana, people got up out of hunger and because of the light
. The thing here is to solve the day to day, as always in Cuba, "confirmed to this newspaper D. C, leader of an opposition group.
"If the repression against citizens does not cease immediately and all the detainees are not released, the US and the EU must declare Díaz-Canel illegitimate ruler, suspend the Political Agreement between the EU and Cuba and adopt individual sanctions against the repressors", urged the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights, which has reported
"an unprecedented wave of repression" and the "massive violation of human rights."
In his night appearance on Tuesday, Foreign Minister
Bruno Rodríguez
defended his government's management, called the protesters criminals, again denied that it was an outbreak and went further to deny that there is repression by ensuring that he has seen worse scenes of repression in Europe.
"This repression has always existed in Cuba, it is what we expected, we knew it was going to happen.
Violent beating, arbitrary imprisonment, shooting, have always existed
, but it had not been seen in a massive way as it has been until now. So that we have 5,000 detainees in Cuba many thousands must have taken to the streets, "said
Henry Eric Sánchez
, academic, editor of Hypermedia Magazine and one of the most powerful voices of the 27-N Group, which emerged last year together with the San Isidro Movement.
'Youtubers' arrested
The leader of this movement, the artist
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara
, is on the list of disappeared.
Dina Stars
, the
youtuber
taken from her home when she spoke to Cuatro, was released yesterday after being accused of instigation of the crime.
"I am whole from head to toe, they did not mistreat me
,
"
said the
influencer
in her first connection on Instagram.
"In the 1980s, during the Mariel crisis,
I was a child who was taken from school to attack people who left the island for the United States
, we threw eggs at them. Our parents beat them and humiliated them," he recalls Sánchez, who these days, when seeing how recruits were armed with sticks to harass the rebels, also recalled that in his time "in the youth brigades it was mandatory to have a bat so if someone criticized the revolutionary process, you had the right and the duty to attack him ".
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