how they shouted “murderer” and “freedom” to a repressor of the Castro regime during the protests in Cuba

Amid unprecedented protests in Cuba, it was recorded how they shouted at him in the streets “murderer” and “freedom” to the commander Ramiro “Ramirito” Valdés, one of the historical leaders and “heroes of the Cuban revolution” with Fidel and Raúl Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos and Ernesto Guevara, among others.

For opponents of the Castro regime now in the hands of Miguel Díaz-Canel, Valdés was “a bloody repressor” who is today linked to the formidable squad of “black berets” who came out to suppress the protests.

Valdés, almost ninety years old – as a member of the revolutionary old guard (he was Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s second in a guerrilla column and later led his own) – spoke out in favor Castroism after the outbreak of demonstrations in Havana.

According to the international agency EFEValdés – targeted by dissent as a “repressor” – has settled in eastern Cuba, the cradle of the “Cuban revolution” and also the epicenter of current social emergence.

The city of Santiago de Palma Soriano was precisely one of the first points where demonstrations broke out on Sunday, and Valdés went there, 88 years old, who according to state media controlled by the Cuban regime “as soon as he broke into his glorious olive green uniform was acclaimed by the people.

The images that emerged before his arrival in the region, however, showed another panorama. “Ramiro is a murderer”, “Ramiro, they are starving us” and “go away” is heard amidst unthinkable cries on an iron island to control everything overview of freedom of expression.

“The Hero of the Republic of Cuba, the Moncadista, an expeditionary from Granma and Che Guevara Column invaderHe addressed everyone, took an interest in their concerns and after recalling that even in these difficult times the Revolution did not abandon its children, she asked them to return home, and that is how it is. happened without delay, ”says the official chronicle, although – reported EFE – There are no videos available to illustrate the story, quite the contrary, in fact.

The demonstrations on the island

The protests began this Sunday when thousands of Cubans took to the streets of Havana and other parts of the island to protest shortages, high food prices and blackouts.

In the exhaustive biography of Ernesto Guevara written by the American journalist Jon Lee Anderson It is mentioned that “Ramirito” was the trusted lieutenant of “Che” and that, according to Guevara, he looked like Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the KGB.

The current protests in Cuba could go down in history, as it is the first time that a large group of Cubans have taken to the streets to protest against the regime since the famous “Maleconazo” of 1994.

“As if pandemic epidemics weren’t everywhere in the world, the Cuban-American mafia, paying very welln, on social media, influencers and YouTubers created a whole campaign … and called for protests across the country, ” President Miguel Díaz-Canel said.

From Granma, the official media of the Castro regime, they maintained: “There were riots with the presence of criminal elements that our people reject, and he tried to manipulate people and generate pseudo-movements to form political opposition. “

After the protests and repression in Cuba, President Alberto Fernández felt that “these things must be resolved by the peoples” and declared that he did not know “the dimension of the problem” in the Caribbean island, although ‘he was very critical of what he viewed as an economic blockade of Cuba from the United States.

“At the G20, I demanded an end to the blockades in the world. The one who suffers from it is not a government, but the people. In the midst of a pandemic, the maintenance of the blockades is the least humanitarian thing that exists, “Fernández said and has been interpreted on the island as support for the regime.

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