Miami joins the mobilizations against the Díaz-Canel government

On 8th Street in Miami, in the famous Versailles restaurant, Cubans began to rally around 2 p.m. local time in support of the protests in Cuba. At that time, hundreds of North Cuban Americans were gathered in Versailles to support the protests in Cuba and several patrol cars were guarding the protest and closed the streets, the newspaper reported. The Miami Herald of the city of Florida.

According to the media, the protesters were holding flags and “SOS Cuba” posters and they stopped the traffic to sing the notes of the national anthem.

“Liberty” and “Fatherland and life” they cried in unison, several even wept with joy.

“It was time for people to take to the streets. Poverty and hunger in Cuba must end, the repression and ill-treatment of the people must end. I tell people to go out in the streets, ”said Yoselin Castro, a Cuban demonstrating in Versailles, in The Miami Herald.

“We have been living in miseries and needs for many years. It was time to wake up, ”said Ronald Rodríguez, another protester.

Ramón Saúl Sánchez, President of the Movement for Democracy, urged his compatriots in Miami to join the protestss. “I summon everyone in the region of Versailles (…) so that the world can see that their exile brings support to the Cuban people”, he declared.

Miami journalist Ninoska Pérez Castellón said that the protest “it is the just claim of a people that has been repressed, deceived, stolen from their future, and they have no choice but this one. “

Famous Cuban reggaeton player Yomil wrote on Twitter: “We were so hungry that we ate our fear. My unconditional support for my people and i cry c … with pride in knowing that we are all waking up, to a country with a better future. Come on, if you can #SOSCuba ”.

Writer Enrique del Risco, who lives in New York and on the way to the square of time in the afternoon to support the demonstrations with a group of Cubans, he declared that “it is surprising, not that they protest, but the massiveness and the clarity of the slogans”.

“They don’t just say ‘down …’ but they talk about democracy and freedom. They ask for a change very clearly“, He said.

The Miami Herald He reported that several exile organizations have called on Cuban police forces not to crack down on people who have come out to demonstrate in the streets.

“The Cuban people today stood up for their freedom, calls for the end of the regime. We call on the Cuban police and armed forces to protect this people and end this regime. We also ask for the intervention of the United States to protect these people and put an end to this regime, ”declared Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat, coordinator of the Assembly of the Resistance, an organization of Cuban exiles.