A poster against the Cuban regime appeared this Tuesday in Central Havana in broad daylight, on Crespo and Trocadero streets, in gigantic letters written with sand on the road. “Down with the dictatorship, the murderous Castros”, was the slogan, as can be seen in a video broadcast on networks by the actor Edel Carrerowho claims to have witnessed the action, shortly before three in the afternoon.
“I was going to my house and I saw him doing it,” the artist confirms with this newspaper. “I waited for it to finish and recorded so that he wouldn’t come out, so that they wouldn’t catch him,” he continues, although he fears: “There are cameras on that corner anyway.”
An hour later, 14ymedio He verified in the place that a neighbor was cleaning the floor with a broom and water that they threw with several buckets from a balcony. The man, who was sweeping listlessly, did not even respond to an old woman who passed by him and asked: “Who ordered to throw water there?”
#Cuba “Down with the dictatorship, the murderous Castros”, they write in broad daylight in Havana https://t.co/YastBoY6DR
? Police officers supervise the cleaning of the poster, written with sand on the asphalt | Video: Edel Carrero ( @CarreroEdel)/Twitter pic.twitter.com/1hAJYHkvDo— 14ymedio (@14ymedio) March 14, 2023
Meanwhile, the operation was monitored by two policemen, a State Security agent and two people who looked like factors Of the territory.
Unlike other types of events, the neighbors stayed away from the site, although they whispered, criticized and even laughed at the doors and windows. “Look how there is water there for that,” a woman said sarcastically to a neighbor, with whom she was discussing the supply problems in the area.
It had been more than a year since any critical graffiti came to light, which became general after the mass protests of July 11, 2021. In February 2022, it appeared a huge billboard painted on the asphalt with the phrase “Patria y Vida” on Gervasio and Enrique Barnet (Estrella) streets, also in Centro Habana, which was erased in the middle of a large police deployment. On that occasion, the action happened at dawn.
few weeks before, another painting of considerable dimensions On a wall on General Serrano street, almost on the corner with Vía Blanca, in the Santos Suárez municipality of Havana, he mobilized a whole mob of police, military and civilian agents on Suzuki motorcycles, plus a Criminalistics vehicle. The sign read: “Down with Canel singao.”
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