MIAMI, United States. — Cubans inside and outside the Island have joined the campaign #YoNoMarchoa call to boycott the parades called by the Castro regime on May Day.
Despite the fact that in several provinces the preparations To date, hundreds of people have already assured that they will not be part of the political events scheduled for Sunday.
The call on social networks is clear: do not march on May 1st.
“Cuba is a dictatorship. Do not go to parade on May 1st. If you have been silent for 63 years, stay home for a day”, reads a message shared by dozens of users on Twitter.
“I hope that this May 1st we all stay at home, it is the least we can do as a form of protest. Without fear, with dignity this May 1st,” the user wrote on the social network. Speak Breath.
This Friday, the island’s official media announced the presence of ex-governor Raúl Castro in the activities for May Day.
For its part, the official newspaper Granmathe official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), assured that the people would offer a new demonstration of support for the regime.
“Cuba knows the times it lives in, and against all odds, it remains alive. Whoever doubts it, let her appear on its streets this Sunday. Many reasons guarantee that this May 1st is not one more of the many in which a strip of town has put color to its squares.
Independent journalist Camila Acosta, under house arrest for several months, made it clear that May Day “will be another date of repression in Cuba.”
“Independent journalists and activists will be arbitrarily besieged in our homes; but even if I were free, I’m not going,” the reporter wrote.
“I do not march, but I know that many will for different reasons, from ancestral fear to not losing the comforts that they shamelessly have today,” commented a user identified as Joshi Ramirez.
reduced call
Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar, first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the PCC in Havana, announced this Thursday that the next May Day parade would be held “with fewer people.”
“Today, with fewer people, the enthusiasm has multiplied, an expression of the moment and commitment, and the value of the people to carry out this May Day in the Plaza de la Revolución, where so many times the value of the Revolution has been raised. and of socialism”, indicated the official during a partisan plenary session held at the Lázaro Peña Theater.
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