Protesters for and against the Cuban government march in front of the embassy in Buenos Aires

The city police have set up a cordon to prevent possible clashes that could erupt this Wednesday between protesters who protest against the government of Cuba and others who support it. This afternoon, for the first time, the two groups met in front of the diplomatic headquarters located in Via Virrey del Pino 1810, in the district of Belgrano. The two met there to speak only two hours apart.

In front of the diplomatic headquarters, on a very cold Buenos Aires afternoon and at nightfall, demonstrators called by the unions registered with Kirchnérisme were posted to support the diet Cuban, and, on the other hand, a group of Cuban exiles who live in Argentina and who they denounce the abuses of the Castro dictatorship.

Juan Carlos González, a Cuban who lives in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, and who came to Buenos Aires especially for the protest, said Bugle that “the embargo does not exist”. “The embargo is on the Cuban government, it is not on the Cubans. I can take whatever I want to Cuba. What they say is a lie,” he said of responsible for Miguel Díaz Canel.

From the office of Minister of Security Marcelo D’Alessandro, they indicated that, although the embassies are federal objectives, this Wednesday the Cuban embassy It will have urban containment personnel, brigades and municipal police, who had already controlled the area since Sunday.

Since Monday, Cubans in exile have been meeting in front of the diplomatic headquarters shouting “Freedom!” and “Down with the dictatorship!” This Wednesday, they will meet there at 6 pm and they call it their “big day” with the hashtag #SOSCUBA #PATRIAYVIDA, slogans born of the massive demonstrations that erupted in many cities of the island last Sunday and violently repressed by regime security forces.

“We go to the march spontaneously, the vast majority of Cubans who are in Argentina. We are self-summoned“Danilo Pompa, an engineer born on the island, who has lived in the country for decades, told this newspaper where he devotes himself to tourism.

“We protest against tyranny in Cuba, against oppression against lack of freedom. We are the self-proclaimed Cubans calling for an end to the repression in Cuba. Call for freedom, pluralism, elections and that Díaz Canel is removed from the government and that there is a transitional government that he can take back the things of a Cuba for all with social inclusion. There are no leaders in this march, ”he said.

In turn, from a little after noon, the autonomous CTA has already focused on the same corner of Virrey del Pino and Arribeños to give what he called his “Support for the people of #Cuba and the Cuban revolution”. The presence of the ATE, the Evita Movement, the PC and other organizations is expected.

Pablo Méndez, of the Casa de la Amistad Argentino Cubana, said Bugle that they mobilized the Cuban Embassy against the inhuman and cruel blockade of the United States against Cuba, its people and its economy. And he said they were protesting “against so-called US laws that have real extraterritorial effect against countries like Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.”