The "beltza" attacked by the 'abertzales' who came from Cuba and wrapped themselves in the Spanish flag: "I am Spanish"

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Updated Friday, October 14, 2022-17:16

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"Beltza!

(black), go to your country”, they yelled at him

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Lázaro Luis Pons Pérez answered them: “I live here.

I am Spanish".

Later they spat at him and tried to attack him without success because Lázaro defended himself and dodged their attempts to punch and kick him, his attempts to snatch the Spanish flag with which he wrapped himself, in a way that even made the aggressors look ridiculous.

The images were collected by reporters from Navarra Television who had to endure that those subjects tried to prevent them, without success, from recording what was happening, a recording that has gone viral.

But the words are remembered for

by the protagonist of the story, who

in a small square in Pamplona against this celebration.

After being attacked he refused to leave.

When a few minutes had passed, he agreed to leave so that there would be no more problems, "not out of fear", but beforehand he warned the attackers: "Be very careful because I am not going to allow you to tell me which flag I have to use, nor what am I to say, or how am I to think, or how am I to live.

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Lázaro Luis was born in Cuba on May 29, 1971 and has lived in Spain since 2012. He fell in love in his country with a Navarrese woman who had traveled to the Caribbean on vacation and two years later they decided to get married and settle in Pamplona, ​​"a wonderful city in a wonderful land.

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In Spain he installs elevators, "a job that requires a lot of concentration."

He is also one of those responsible for ACUNA, the Cuban association in Navarra that is dedicated to "organizing demonstrations against the Cuban dictatorship in Navarra" and "

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In fact, as head of ACUNA, she has participated in a round table in the Parliament of Navarra whose purpose was to explain the reality on the island and help the Cuban people.

The Cuban citizen confronts his aggressors and refuses to leave.

On Hispanic Day I was walking with a Cuban friend, also from the association, through the Plaza del Castillo.

They didn't mind not seeing Spanish flags like the one they were carrying.

Lázaro Luis Pons Pérez recalls that this date is also commemorated in his country, for the Discovery and for another reason that he considers important to highlight: «On October 10, 1868,

So he felt there was plenty to celebrate.

“I am in Spain, I have been there for 10 years, and I proudly wear the Spanish flag, just as I wear the Navarre flag on the day that this Community's festivity is celebrated.

In addition, the Spanish flag contains the Navarrese coat of arms and I felt identified.

I didn't mean to provoke.

I didn't even know there was a demonstration going on there.

Now they have said that the CIA pays me or Vox pays me and it is not true.

nor do I have any relationship with the American associations of Cubans against the Cuban dictatorship.

Those associations in the US have been enriched by this history and the consequences are paid by the Cuban people.

I don't want to enrich myself at the expense of the Cuban people.

I prefer to earn my money by working and sending, with what I have, medicine and aid to Cuban political prisoners, he says.

Another moment of aggression. Navarra Television

Lázaro Luis Pons has also worked as a doorman in some of the bars in the old town of Pamplona in San Fermines and that's why he knew who was up against him.

«I know these young people and they know me.

I have never disrespected them, neither to them nor to the

And that I could be upset with them because

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And if I respect that they have their flags, they have to respect that I wrap myself in mine.

Many times I have heard them say

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They don't know what the revolution is or who any of them were.

They were murderers and what happened was a change from one dictatorship to another.

They go there to support them and tease us », he says.

And finally he adds: «One more thing.

I want to tell the Government of Spain, the Spanish governments, to stop helping the Cuban dictatorship because the money that Spanish taxpayers give to support the Cuban people ends up in the hands of

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Said remains.

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