Hundreds of protesters protest at Miami harbor against cruises to Cuba

More than 200 people demonstrated this Saturday in the vicinity of the port of Miami to request the cessation of cruises in Cuba to prevent the government of Diaz-Canel continue to receive large are money by the tourists visiting the island in these boats.

As part of the campaign "Do not help repression", members of Cuban exile and university students urged Miami citizens not to contribute financially to "l & # 39; Operation "The director of the Cuban Resistance Assembly, Orlando Gutierrez, the organizer of the protest, told the EFE news agency that the protest was part of one of the many actions that will take place during the summer.

Gutiérrez said that for the moment they are managing two campaign slogans, "End to gain without conscience" and "Shame on money", a well-known slogan Cuban poet Eduardo Chibás, founder of the Orthodox Party, in the 1940s.

In recent months, the exiles grouped in the Cuban Resistance Assembly argued that ports and docks where cruise companies operate are "goods stolen under the threat of a weapon" by the Cuban regime, for "traffic and exploitation".

According to a study cited last year by EFE, cruise lines will accumulate more than $ 761 million in gross revenues until 2019 by carrying more than 570,000 pbadengers on their routes with stops. in Cuba.

Among these are Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian, the first to obtain licenses to operate on the island after the normalization of bilateral relations between the United States and Cuba in 2014.

Gutiérrez reported that Nicaraguan and Venezuelan protesters living in the city were present at the protest site. He also highlighted the presence of Cuban politicians and a group of women from Broward County.