MIAMI, United States. — Representatives of the Cuban exile group demanded this Thursday in Miami the maintenance of the embargo and sanctions against the Castro regime during a caravan that ended in a massive demonstration in front of the Versailles restaurant.
Before the maneuvers of Democratic and Republican Senators to eliminate the embargo —in force since 1962— Cubans protested and condemned the easing of the policy towards the dictatorship by the Biden administration.
The announcement It was led by the influencer Alex Otaola and by the activist Rosa María Payá, daughter of the late Cuban opponent Oswaldo Payá.
In statements offered to CubaNetOtaola sent a message to the Castro regime and assured that the only normalization happens through the communists handing over power.
“If you want to do something good for the Cuban people, it is not Washington that you have to tell, you have to leave your seats in the Central Committee,” said the influencer,
For her part, Rosa María Payá made it clear that the initiatives to put an end to the embargo will not bear fruit. However, she called into exile not to stop raising her voice against the attempts to negotiate with the dictatorship.
“What cannot happen is that we stay in our homes. We have to be mobilized all the time, ”she maintained.
The Cuban activist also assured that the exile has already responded to Castroism with an initiative that is already in the Senate, and that goes by naming the street that passes in front of the regime’s Embassy in Washington “Oswaldo Payá.”
Recently, Democratic Senators Amy Klobuchar, Chris Murphy and Elizabeth Warren and Republicans Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall introduced a bill to lift the embargo against the Cuban regime.
The initiative seeks to repeal provisions of the laws “that prevent Americans from doing business in Cuba, but keeps in force laws that address human rights or property claims against the Cuban government.”
To be approved, the bill, which has already been presented without success on other occasions, would need the approval of the US House of Representatives and Senate.
