As July 11 approaches, State Security deploys its tentacles to neutralize any attempt to celebrate the first anniversary of the historic protests that took place in dozens of places throughout the Island.
This Friday, the independent reporter light escobar She was summoned to receive a very clear warning: that the next July 11, 12 and 13, she will have “surveillance” in her house and, therefore, she will not be able to leave.
“The State Security officer who calls himself Ramses, and who frequently represses me, has called me this afternoon to tell me that I am scheduled for an ‘interview’ at the identity card office tomorrow at 10 am.” Escobar reported this Thursday on his networks. “He says that, based on new regulations, they are not obliged to leave me a written paper.”
Sources from Cienfuegos assure that there are schools that closed as of this Friday to be able to concentrate police and military in anticipation of next Monday.
The journalist confirmed what he foresaw: “The man wanted to let me know that as a result of the ‘complicated’ days that are coming now I will have surveillance and a police fence on the ground floor of the building to prevent me from going out on the street on those days.” the same ramses he assured her that he would be on guard.
Also this Friday, Leo Fernández Cruz, from Guanabacoa, was summoned. “Last July 11 I did not go out on the street,” recalled the young man, who was arrested for six hours months later, after the frustrated call of the Archipelago platform for the Civic March for Change on November 15.
Similarly, other activists on the island, such as Yerly Velázquez, from Santa Clara, have also been cited. by the political police. The young man, his mother informed this newspaper, was accused this Thursday of “contempt” for his posts on social networks and was even asked to appoint a lawyer to defend him.
Sources from Cienfuegos assure that there are schools that have closed as of this Friday in order to concentrate the police and military in anticipation of next Monday.
In some parks in Havana, this same day, schoolchildren were seen singing revolutionary slogans. “My children have already been summoned to activities in the nearest park, for today, Friday and Monday the 11th,” wrote Juliette Isabel Fernández, wife of journalist and opponent Boris González, who was also threatened by State Security. “It would be unreasonable that, with a father summoned to receive the warning that on Monday the 11th he will not have the right to leave the house and move through the streets, our children would attend that call,” he said, while reporting that the “music patriotic” also sounded in his neighborhood since morning.
“My children have already been summoned to activities in the nearest park, for today Friday and Monday 11”
From Sancti Spíritus, they report that they are “mobilizing” workers for “guards” in state companies. In the home of Alexander Fábregas, reports his brother, the activist living in the United States Néstor Estévez, the whole family is “peacefully quartered”, from this Friday at three in the afternoon and until Monday, to protest “within house” for the anniversary of 11J.
According to other testimonies, in several buildings in Havana, residents are being called this weekend to a “revolutionary popular surveillance exercise,” consisting of putting up “decorations and flags” as a way to show that “we are still in combat.” , in the words of the president of the neighborhood council of a building in El Vedado.
In addition, since this Thursday, the Internet service on the Island slows down at times. It goes unnoticed by no one that the blackout of communications was one of the tactics carried out by the regime, with the help of the state monopoly Etecsa, to prevent the repression of 11J from being broadcast in real time, as the first demonstration of that day , in San Antonio de los Baños.
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