More than 15,000 people took to the streets of Miami to support massive protests against dictatorship in Cuba

Under torrential rains, some 15,000 people arrived in front of the iconic Versailles restaurant in Little Havana in Miami, to show their support for the oppressed people of Cuba who have faced repression in the streets of the island for four days.

The call, launched by the Miami city authorities, well-known radio hosts – like Enrique Santos and DJ Laz-, and the group Gente de Zona, was organized in less than 12 hours.

“If Cuba is on the streets, so is MiamiRepeated the audience over and over. From the stage, Santos introduced various speakers who gave their opinion in Spanish on what is happening in Cuba.

“By my parents, I swear it. We will stay here until communism is gone“Miami City Police Chief Art Acevedo yelled euphorically in applause.

“Liberty, liberty, liberty», Chanted Mayor Francis Suarez from the stage, adding his voice to that of the audience.

“My friends risk their lives on the streets. They beat them, stop them, make them disappear. The least I can do is stand here in the rain, asking for freedom. I am very anxious, what is going on in my country is a massacre ”, she declared. Infobae Iris Gonzalez Rivero, a 27-year-old Cuban who has lived in the United States for four years.

The highlight of the meeting was the moment when the members of The people of the area, Randy Malcom and Alexander Delgado, to sing “Homeland and life “. The song has become the anthem of those calling for the end of the 62-year dictatorship.

But beyond “Homeland and life “, the audience was not in the mood to listen to music. When other songs started playing from the stage, like It happens by Willy Chirino (another anti-Communist hymn), many of those present expressed a bad feeling.

“It is not a party. They kill our brothers“A man shouted into the audience.

Immediately, the organizers cut the music and sang the Cuban anthem. Second act thousands of people started shouting intervention.

“We need President Biden to listen to us and intervene”, Miami commissioner Manolo Reyes, who was one of the event’s organizers, said from the stage.

“The Cubans have done a lot for this country, we deserve the United States to support us. If they don’t intervene, they will continue to kill us in Cuba. We can no longer do it, we need a military intervention in my country ”, declared categorically Yamilca Bueno, a resident of Havana visiting Miami.

“Biden has to do something now. The world must start condemning the genocide of communists in CubaAdded Félix González, a Cuban octogenarian who has lived in the United States for decades.

The Miamiians have offered to give visibility to the suffering of the Cuban people, who endured the longest dictatorship in the history of the hemisphere for six decades.

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