• Protests The Cuban Government reinforces the militarization of the island against the civic march for change

The organizers of the civic march for change are not frightened by the threats of the revolution.

After several hours of debate and different proposals, the Archipelago collective agreed to advance the national protest for November 15,

five days earlier than originally planned.

In this way, the organizers would avoid the three days of military exercises decreed by the Government of

Miguel Díaz-Canel

, including the celebration of the National Defense Day, imposed for November 20.

The request with the changes was immediately delivered to the National Assembly of People's Power, since such a daring initiative, the first of magnitude after the social outbreak of July 11, is based on Article 56 of the new Cuban Constitution. "It seems totally irresponsible to us to generate any event that provokes a violent confrontation between Cubans.

Our objective with the march continues to be to demonstrate against violence

, so that all the rights of all Cubans are respected, for the release of political prisoners and so that our differences are resolved through democratic and peaceful means ", reads the statement.

November 15 also coincides with the opening of the island for international tourism after the progress made in the fight against the pandemic.

"It marks a line of prudence that we have wanted to respect,"

emphasize the organizers, who have asked the protesters to wear white clothes to confirm the peaceful nature of the demonstrations.

"The violent and vile measure of taking the military out onto the streets has been answered with firmness and serenity, an intelligent political move," congratulated activist

Mag Jorge Castro

.

"We assume the change of date. The important and fundamental thing is the exercise of citizen rights," responded the Council for the Democratic Transition in Cuba (CTDC), currently headed by

Marthadela Tamayo

, since its president,

José Daniel Ferrer,

is one of those arrested during the 11J protests. The CTDC has joined the Archipelago collective call from the first moment.

Cuban prisons have been overflowing with political prisoners in recent weeks. According to the calculations of Prisoners Defenders, the NGO that assists Cuban political prisoners, in the last 12 months

a historical record

has been broken,

reaching the number of 525 prisoners

, of which 442 are still held in prisons. the organization has confirmed so far 288 linked to 11J, despite the obscurantism that presides over the repressive maneuvers of the Castro revolution.

"If more than a thousand people have already joined, we could not suspend"

, recognized the playwright

Yunior García Aguilera

, from whom the idea of ​​the march started. The response of the group was known during a virtual press conference that suffered cuts in the telephone lines and the internet of the participants.

"It doesn't matter that they block us, they who spend their lives talking about the blockade. They block their citizens and there is no worse blockade than the internal blockade that every citizen in this country has. They who spend their lives talking about David against him. Goliath because

within Cuba they behave like an abusive and despotic Goliath

, who walks in military boots and wants to crush citizens who do not think like them, "protested the playwright during his speech, who even dared to make a call to the international left, "which is usually an accomplice and behaves in a hypocritical way, and tells them that there are no dictatorships of the right or of the left, good or bad, there are dictatorships. this world. Not one more dictatorship,it's enough!".

Cuban opponents, dissidents and activists received with indignation the public and manifesto support of the Mexican president,

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

, for Díaz-Canel.

Thousands of Cubans fleeing the island live in exiles in the Central American country.

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