"When the opinion of the other is annulled, when the absolute truth tries to establish itself, there is no longer a difference between left and right, simply the course is lost. Hopefully the countries that lost their way, such as Nicaragua or Cuba, will recover it and that the countries that can think differently, do not lose that privilege, "reflected the Cuban playwright Yunior García this Monday at an event at the Complutense University of Madrid, in which the Venezuelan opponent Leopoldo López and the activist for Human Rights in Nicaragua Santiago Urbina have also participated. all three representing the dissent of the Latin American dictatorships.

The 'Voices of Repression' colloquium, organized by the Freedom without Wrath student association and held at the Faculty of Political Science, was characterized by tension during practically the entire talk over the attempted student boycott. Before the entrance of García and López, dozens of students began shouting at the entrance of the assembly hall proclamations such as "Fascists out of the university!", "Anti-journalists" and "not here journalists." Immediately afterwards, and after several shoves, they broke into the classroom with banners that read "Extreme right out of the university" and "López assassin", among others, which sparked clashes with the organizers of the event. Finally, the group left the room and was able to start the talk.

As a result of the act of repudiation, which had been disseminated through social networks with the aim of "stopping the extreme right", the leader of the Cuban platform Archipiélago has started his speech asking for greater tolerance: "I dream of the day in which our scientists discover a vaccine against intolerance. I hope that every time we shout less and we are more willing to listen. "

The Cuban artist, who arrived in Spain on November 17 with a 3-month visa after the Castro forces besieged his house in Havana on the occasion of the civic march of 15-N, has assured EL MUNDO that he is " in the process "of solving their situation so that they do not have to request asylum in Spain.

He has also called out against the censorship of writers and singers by the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel. "This movement -Archipelago- began as a movement from below, of cultural resistance, due to censorship. In Cuba it is not possible to write the poems that one wants, I know people who have ended up in jail for writing a poem. That kind of thing It has nothing to do with the left or the right, if not with authoritarianism. "

He has also denounced the threats by the prosecution to be sentenced to more than 20 years in prison "for all the crimes that occurred to him" if he participated in the peaceful protests of November 15 - which happened without great importance due to the military deployment. - and that hundreds of young people have been imprisoned since the social outbreak of July 11. Hundreds of Cubans who took to the streets were arrested and jailed, as is the case of Yunior García.

"There are still more than 800 young people imprisoned since 11-J for going out to say 'I want freedom.' That day the cities rose up. There were acts of repudiation, they yelled at us, threw us into a rubble truck and took us to a jail All we wanted was to speak for 15 minutes on television. The next day they released us because we were well-known artists and because they began to protest for us to be released, "he recalls.

The Cuban opponent has also criticized Díaz-Canel's 'vaccine diplomacy', a strategy developed with the aim of offering an image abroad of scientific progress and effective fight against the pandemic.

"The Covid vaccines have become political propaganda," he said.

"There were no drugs for other things, people died of anything else. There were five vaccines, but nothing more."

For his part, the Venezuelan opposition leader and former political prisoner Leopoldo López has affirmed that as his case "there are thousands" in Venezuela.

"Every Venezuelan who is outside the country has a story of how asphyxiated freedom ends up affecting each person."

"It was argued that Venezuela would not be Cuba because there are autonomous universities and because there is a democratic culture. Unfortunately, as a society, despite the fact that we have tried to negotiate and that we have had international support, we have been losing freedom one by one," he added.

López has highlighted how the three regimes support each other.

"The dictatorship in Venezuela is criminal and murderous, says the UN."

"This reality we are experiencing is not an isolated tragedy, they support each other and learn to apply it in their country. The persecution, repression, imprisonment, but also the moral murder of each person who raises their voice."

Nicaragua, the "sultanate" of Ortega

For his part, Santiago Urbina, a human rights activist in Nicaragua, has reviewed the political situation marked by the constant authoritarian drift of Daniel Ortega, who has been taking over all powers "like Chávez" until he converted the country Central American in a "sultanate", denounces.

Urbina, who numbers 160 Nicaraguan political prisoners, has lashed out at the "electoral simulation" of November 7.

A predictable election marked by the absence of rivals after the imprisonment of 7 candidates.

"The three of us share the love and the illusion for three countries that we want to see free. Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba are united in the problems we face. Authoritarianism uses ideologies to be able to impose itself and to control everything, it does not matter if it is a country of the North or South, we will see the same type of situations "the activist settled.

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