Miguel Díaz-Canel pledged repression and called on “Communist revolutionaries to fight” Cuban protesters

“We are ready to give our life. They must step over our corpses if they want to face the revolution. We are ready for anything ”, declared the leader of the Castro dictatorship Miguel Díaz-Canel in statements to the Telesur network.

“We are not going to allow any counterrevolutionary, mercenary, sold to the American Empire, to cause destabilization,” he said. And threatened: “There will be a revolutionary response. This is why we call on all communist revolutionaries to take to the streets where these provocations are going to take place and to confront them decisively ”.

“The order of the fight is given, to the street the revolutionaries”, he dangerously voiced in a special television appearance.

This Sunday what seemed impossible happened on an island tightly controlled by the repressive apparatus of the dictatorship: Thousands of Cubans spontaneously took to the streets of their cities without the regime being able to stop them or attempts to censor the dissemination of images to thrive.. Cubans are fed up, and to the repression of the Castro regime ruled by Miguel Díaz-Canel, there has been added an undeniable health crisis which is causing the collapse of hospitals, the main propaganda capital of the dictatorship.

“What irresponsibility … this is the call for civil war,” denounced dissident Yoani Sánchez.

This Sunday, thousands and thousands of Cubans decided to come out and demand. The first protest arose in San Antonio de los Baños (Artemisa, west) and with the cry of “Down with the dictatorship! “,” Liberty “and” homeland and life “, they have spread to other cities in the country … unthinkable: in Havana, they have also mobilized.

The images of hundreds of people on the Malecón, or dozens in front of the headquarters of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT) in Central Avenue 23. There, the demonstrators clashed without reaching violence, with workers of the ICRT which carried Cuban flags and shouted slogans like “Long live Fidel” and “Cuba yes, the Yankees no”.

Marches were also recorded in other cities of the Caribbean country such as Palma Soriano (Santiago de Cuba, east) and Güira de Melena and Alquízar, both in the province of Artemisa.

The unprecedented protests were broadcast live by Facebook users and take place amid an economic and health crisis in this Caribbean country, where people are complaining about a lack of food, medicine and other basic items. .

This is the biggest anti-government demonstration recorded on the island since the so-called “maleconazo”, when in August 1994, in the middle of the “special period”, hundreds of people took to the streets of La Havana and did not leave until he arrived. Cuban leader of the time Fidel Castro

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