Castro's repression prevents civic march in the streets of Cuba

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As if it were a tsunami.

The call for civic acts for change ended up stripping the Cuban revolution, which responded with an

so that images such as the social outbreak of the historic July 11 would not go around the world again this Monday.

The only objective of the government was to prevent 15-N from walking around in white and shouting for freedom. But the display was so huge that it seemed they were expecting an invasion of aliens. And that goal was partially achieved:

and repression, but the Cubans managed to express their wishes in other ways, as planned by the Archipelago citizen action platform.

of the same color became the best tool to join the 15-N.

Marching in crowds became almost impossible. Police and military forces and the dictatorship's shock brigades were distributed throughout the country's main cities, starting with Havana, after Sunday's "blockade" against Yunior García Aguilera, the visible head of the Archipelago. Even the dreaded battalions of black berets returned to the streets to scare the Cubans with their violence.

The operation against the Trébol Teatro playwright, locked up in his own home as if it were a jail and all his communication channels were cut off, multiplied in all corners of the island against members of the Archipelago, civil society activists and relatives of the

especially those captured since 11-J.

The blockade of his street was only the first of many more.

"They can lock me up, blackmail me with the world of my affections.

defended the historian Leonardo Fernández Otaño, one of the visible heads of the Archipelago.

Its coordinators (the actress Iris Meriño, the activist Saily González, the writers Javier Mora and Miguel Montero, the poet Zulema Gutiérrez, among others), members of the Ladies in White such as Berta Soler and Ángel Moya, independent journalists such as Luz Escobar and Yoani Sánchez and hundreds more were

as Internet services on the island were once again reduced.

Also leaders of the Council for Democratic Transition, such as its vice president, the Social Democrat Manuel Cuesta Morúa, were arrested when the time to march approached.

The Cuban authorities also prevented the leader

head of Cuba Decide, from traveling from Miami to the island in the company of the Spanish MEP Hermann Tertsch.

On the contrary, the communist MEP Manu Pineda has remained for several days in Havana in direct support of Miguel Díaz-Canel, who included him in his propaganda announcements.

"The reports we receive from Cuba are devastating. The regime has deployed the security forces on a massive scale. Many journalists and critics are besieged in their homes.

Some have been detained. The intention is clear: to suppress any attempt to protest," he denounced José Miguel Vivanco, director for the Americas at Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The repression reached such levels that even rapper Maykel Osorbo, one of the authors of the libertarian anthem 'Patria y Vida',

detained for six months, according to the complaint made by Anamely Ramos, an activist from the San Isidro Movement (MSI).

The artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, leader of the MSI, is another of the prisoners of the revolution for participating in the social outbreak in July.

Networks become "digital streets"

"Nothing will silence the desire for freedom of the Cuban people," protested the MSI after viralizing the protest of the family of Andy García Lorenzo in Santa Clara, who shouted "We want freedom", dressed in white, faced with their joy against a government mob.

The young García Lorenzo is sentenced to seven years in prison for going out to protest in June.

Social media barely became the "digital streets" with hundreds of Cubans dressed in white shouting freedom.

that the revolution has managed to censor on cell phones: dictatorship, demonstration, protest, 11-J, Archipelago, Díaz Canel singao and Patria y Vida.

In the rest of the planet, more than 100 cities, including Madrid, the banned slogans on the island were heard without hindrance.

"They have tried to behead the 15-N with a pattern that includes all the machinery of the State at the service of repression, which can afford to immobilize hundreds of people who by going to the streets can multiply by thousands," he explained to EL MUNDO the Cuban political scientist Armando Chaguaceda.

"With the repression they want to give the idea that the street belongs to the regime, something already seen before in Venezuela and Nicaragua. The protest cycles were aborted with a huge action of repression", the also historian, specialist in revolutions.

"By hand, the new Latin American authoritarianism is happening in Cuba. You

organize acts of repudiation, you block the exit of activists with mobs or improvised house police arrests and then you say that the opponents are small groups without popular support," criticized the philosopher Rafael Rojas.

"Now or never. These young people (Archipelago) are willing to change Cuba because they were born when the symbols no longer made sense. They do not have a past that tries to take over their conscience. Their today is terrible, the Cuba that they had to live. They owe nothing to the past, only misery and shame, "the writer Camilo Vargas explained to EL MUNDO.

The Cuban government, for its part, delved into its favorite task: propaganda.

"The world is fighting with Cuba. Our gratitude for the support and solidarity," Diaz-Canel pontificated, despite the criticism that has been generated in the face of the repression that he himself leads.

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