Cubans disrupt traffic in Miami in support of historic protests against Castro’s regime

Hundreds of Cubans interrupted various streets and highways in the city of Miami on Tuesday demanding humanitarian intervention on the island by the United States government.

Local residents showed up on the Palmetto Expressway, as well as at the north entrance of the highway at Coral Way and 76 ave, to express support for the massive protests against the Cuban dictatorship.

This request was repeated at various locations on Ocho Street, including the popular Cuban restaurant Versailles.

“It is the Cubans who support the Cubans, from hand to hand, from city to city, because we lack international support ”, said Cuban John Jiménez, who got up early Tuesday to bring water and masks to the Pelican Harbor marina in Miami to send them to Cuba.

Despite the rain that has fallen on the city since the afternoon, the demonstrators remained on the tracks until late at night, shouting “Homeland and life”, “Freedom” and “Biden responds”.. Many of them carried signs with the iconic phrase “SOS Cuba”, which accompanied the massive demonstrations and made visible on social networks the dramatic crisis that Cubans are going through because of the communist dictatorship..

The Cuban community in Florida showed fellow islanders on Tuesday that they “have support from outside” by blocking a major highway, demonstrations on the popular Calle Ocho in Miami and a call for an “end of the regime” in an act which recalled with a minute of silence 37 of its “victims” on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the sinking of the “Tug on the 13th March”.

“If Cuba is in the streets, so is Miami” was the slogan that rallied exiles from this southeast Florida city, as well as Tampa, on the west coast, in support of unprecedented street protests last Sunday in Cuba. the strongest that have occurred in this country in the past six decades.

The heavy rains on Tuesday did not discourage hundreds of Cuban-Americans and exiles, organized by social networks In the multiple demonstrations and events, they demanded an “intervention” from the government of the American president, Joe Biden, to prevent bloodshed on the island.

URGENT CONTUNANCE IN BIDEN

Singing this hymn, made famous in 2020 by Yotuel Romero and Descemer Bueno, among other Cuban artists, protesters armed with tents and umbrellas halted the circulation of the Palmetto to call for “an end to the dictatorship” and urge the Cuban people not to surrender.

“Castro’s regime tries to pretend what’s happening in Cuba is hunger protests, demanding vaccines“, But nobody asks that but” an intervention “to obtain his freedom, declared the dissident and politician José Luis García Pérez” Antúnez “.

For her part, Silvia Iriondo, of the MAR organization for Cuba, was proud of the exile’s reaction to this “historic” moment.

“My brother is fighting in the streets (in Cuba), we need all countries to help us because we are not armed in the streets. Our brothers have their nails and eyes pulled out», He told Efe Cuban Deisy González.

Several people in Tamiami told media that once the act was over, they would go to demonstrate on the outskirts of the Southern Command, responsible for the American armed forces in Latin America and the Caribbean.

“The freedom of Cuba is now, we cannot wait”, In the middle of the crowd, a Cuban pointed out to the press, while another criticized the Biden government for “doing nothing”. “Biden, those who voted for you need you now,” said another protester at the Versailles restaurant.

SPONTANEOUS FLOATS

the The Democracy Movement called on the Cuban community to responsibly organize support for Cubans and warned that improvising the flotillas can lead to prosecution in the United States. and also divert the importance that people who protest on the island deserve.

Ramón Saúl Sánchez, head of the Movement for Democracy, an organization that transported flotillas to Cuba for several years and was tried in the United States in 2001 for entering Cuban territory, said Efe What He applauds the energy of the Cubans, but that it must be channeled properly.

The activist also announced that at least a hundred boat owners had called him to offer their help.

The Movement for Democracy seeks organize a demonstration in the Bay of Biscay in Miami to support the Cuban people and also to analyze the response capacity in case they are allowed to legally provide aid to Cuba by the sea.

In this direction, Cuban-American leaders in exile and members of Congress on Tuesday called on President Biden to intervene to restore the Internet to the Cuban people who protests in the streets to demand freedom and not to negotiate with the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel.

(With information from EFE)

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