Yunior García: "It has already been shown what there is in Cuba, a tyrannical dictatorship"

• Cuba Yunior García, the promoter of the civic march in Cuba, flees to Spain without the opposition of Castroism

"I have not requested asylum, I came with a visa because

I need to fulfill my mission, contribute (to freedom) and return. This step was essential." Having just arrived in Madrid after starring in a surprising getaway, the playwright

has spoken with the filmmaker

on his YouTube channel "Right to reply" to answer some of the questions that have been raised in the last few hours.

During the "direct", as they call it in Cuba, the

and one of the visible heads of the Archipiélago citizen action platform, has issued several videos of what happened on Sunday around his home . More than 200 police officers and regime shock forces prevented Yunior from walking with a white rose in his hand as a prelude to the march called.

he laments after closing the door without being able to dialogue with the advance of the siege. They were the most peaceful, because the violent, "ready to break my teeth and ribs", were waiting for him on the outskirts of the building.

"The only way they could not silence me was to escape.

The decision was mine because I understood that they were going to make me die in life," confessed the creator of the Trebol Teatro, who days ago got the Spanish Embassy to grant him a visa , "a strategic measure in case they detained me, because they had already threatened me with jail." With the visa he flew to Spain, without being able to communicate it previously to his companions in the Archipelago because they were incommunicado.

The playwright understood after a whole day of harassment and an act of repudiation, during which they even cordoned off the surroundings of his home and blocked the street by crossing a bus, that "I had no choice but to go out.

me

were going to cut my communications (without Internet or telephone in recent days), they were going to continue with the attacks on television, with discredit, to provoke internal divisions ", revealed Yunior, who confessed that he never He was the most handsome (cool) or the best dressed.

"It has already been shown what there is in Cuba, a tyrannical dictatorship,"

clarified the Cuban intellectual, who is willing to continue his struggle abroad.

He does not believe that the civic march for change was a failed march: "They prohibited it and used all their strength to fill the Cubans with terror. If they think it was a victory (they are wrong) ... It is a matter of time."

Yunior García, in a file image Ramon EspinosaAP

For now, "I'm not going to rest until everyone is free and safe. We still don't know where

(Archipelago mediator) is," although she did know that Art historian

who has dual Spanish and Cuban nationality , is at liberty. The activist, who dared to represent

, father of the Cuban homeland, with star pajamas, has suffered a kind of house arrest for 200 days at her home.

"I do this so that Cuba changes, the important thing is to ensure that there are changes in our country," García Aguilera explained to his friend Padrón, knowing that

and that the first

changes

are already taking place. criticism from the dissent.

"They tried to turn a plural struggle (Archipelago) into a single man and that is why they celebrate my departure. But they will be surprised, this is about ordinary people, about a people that suffers inside and outside. I do this because I carry it inside, because it's inside me and I can't help it. I felt something inside my chest that wouldn't let me breathe, "added the playwright, recognized as one of the great renovators of the Cuban scene.

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