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Back of the European Union (EU) to the young Cuban rebels, who have called for next Monday the 15th a day of civic marches for change, in a forceful democratic and peaceful challenge against the regime. The EU diplomats accredited to the island will closely follow the events that take place that day, which is preceded by a

wave of repression

and harassment against the organizers. European protection is one of the requests made by dissidents.

The delegates will keep Josep Borrell informed about the events, after the High Representative for Foreign Affairs responded to the letter sent by the Delegation for Relations with Central America and Cuba, which includes MEPs Javier Nart, Tilly Metz (Los Verdes) and Jens Gieseke (Christian Democrat).

In the letter, they requested that diplomats observe the events in situ, always under the Vienna Convention.

This has been confirmed to EL MUNDO by political sources in Brussels, with first-hand knowledge of the conversations held between MEPs and Borrell.

A group of diplomats from European countries who are in the Cuban capital

They are also determined to participate as observers in civic protests,

just as they did during the 2019 LGBTI march,

which was also harshly repressed.

Among them is not counted the Spanish Ángel Martín, known for his good relations with the Castro government.

The office of

Michelle Bachelet, the

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, reported Thursday that it will

carry out "remote monitoring" of what happens on Monday in Cuban streets.

Civil and human rights organizations have demanded that Bachelet make reference to the violations that take place on the island on countless occasions.

At the head of the European delegation in Havana remains the Portuguese diplomat Isabel Brilhante, declared persona non grata by Nicolás Maduro last February and expelled from Venezuela. In July, he assumed his new position in Cuba, a few days after the social outbreak of 11-J, the main precedent for the day next Monday. That day thousands of young Cubans took to the streets in fifty municipalities, to the rhythm of the anthem 'Patria y Vida', to shout against the dictatorship and ask for changes in their lives after more than 60 years of Castroism in power. .

The wave of arrests and repression still shakes those who dissent from the Cuban government.

"Faced with the totalitarian escalation of the Cuban government, our response must be civility and pacifism,

without losing the firm decision within the foundational civic values ​​of the nation," the Archipelago citizen action platform reacted yesterday, at the head of the initiative, banned by the government claiming that socialism is irrevocable on the island.

Its leader, the playwright Yunior García Aguilera, at the center of the state harassment, has reported that on Sunday the 14th he will travel several streets of Vedado to the Malecón "carrying only a white rose. And this is not an act of heroism, it is an act of responsibility".

Orders not to wear white on the day of the march

Collective applause, cacerolazos, use of white garments and

massive blackout of the national newscast

of those days are the new proposals of Archipelago, with two transcendental objectives as a background: the freedom of political prisoners and

"the search for a democratic solution to the problem. national".

Against them, the Cuban state has stood with all its power, which not only persecutes and harasses activists.

He has also issued orders to avoid wearing white on the day of the march, to hang white clothes and to turn up the volume on the television.

"At this time of danger for the revolution, we call on our friends to avoid, by all means at their disposal, that the truth of Cuba (of the government) is silenced," harangued President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who throughout the week has had the support of the Spanish MEP Manu Pineda, omnipresent in the media. The communist leader, a regular partner of Nicolás Maduro,

has lashed out harshly against the young rebels, whom he described as "boot-lickers" and "lackeys."

He has also not hesitated to photograph himself while inoculating him with the third dose of a vaccine against Covid.

At present, the regime keeps

590 political prisoners

behind bars

,

far ahead of Venezuela (252) and Nicaragua (around 180 after the electoral operations).

Of these, 370 have been imprisoned since 11-J, as a

result of the terror plan launched by the government, which has not ended, according to investigations carried out by the Prisoners Defenders organization.

The latest conviction petitions are close to 30 years.

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