In Bejucal (Mayabeque) there was no repression monday nightwhen hundreds of people took to the streets banging their cauldrons in the darkness of the blackout and asking for freedom, but the consequences began to appear as early as the next day.
A local neighbor tells 14ymedio that this Tuesday the parents were summoned to the schools with municipal prosecutors, who threatened them. Protected “by the law,” explains this source, they were warned that children over 16 years of age who “fuck in a demonstration have house arrest” and that if they are under that age, “the father can serve from two to seven years of prison”.
In the new penal code, article 407 provides that commits a crime “whoever induces a person under eighteen years of age to leave their home, skip school, reject the educational work inherent to the national education system or fail to comply with their duties related to respect and love for Homeland”. However, the sanction collected is “deprivation of liberty for six months or one year or a fine of one hundred to three hundred quotas, or both”, not two to seven years in prison, as the Bejucal prosecutors threaten.
Some of the parents took the opportunity to complain to the authorities “why they didn’t ask if the children had food at home”, but the vast majority were “intimidated”
Some of the parents, says the witness, took the opportunity to complain to the authorities “why they didn’t ask if the children had food at home”, but the vast majority were “intimidated”.
In Caibarién, where protests were also reported on Monday, the police have issued citations to some of the residents.
Despite this, Cubans have continued to take to the streets. This Tuesday night, videos of a demonstration were published in Mouth of Camarioca (Matanzas) and users assure that in the Sueño district, in Santiago de Cuba, people demonstrated in front of the house of the vice governor of the province, Manuel Falcón Hernández.
A cacerolazo in San José de las Lajas is also confirmed, although, according to a resident of the Mayabeque municipality, “inside the houses.”
In any case, the Island seems to be losing its fear of repression. In Güines (also in Mayabeque), an eyewitness told this newspaper how on Monday night the neighbors burned three garbage containers and made the deployed agents flee, armed with sticks, with stones and bottles full of excrement.
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