“Today the situation in Cuba is much worse than the one that existed on July 11, 2021,” said political expriceseer Luis Zúñiga.
Miami, United States.— This Thursday, exile leaders Luis Zúñiga and Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat They affirmed That the island crosses “a critical moment” and claimed to intensify resistance actions, including a national strike, the proscription of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and the exit of the power of the Castro family.
They also announced a prayer day “inside and outside Cuba” until September 13, the conference date “Save Cuba”according to their public interventions and statements after Cubanet.
Zúñiga said that “66 years is the time that Cubans have been fighting for the freedom of Cuba” and that the regime lives “possibly its moment of greatest danger of falling.” He affirmed that the situation “is growingly critical”, with “almost 20 hours a day of blackouts”, lack of medicines, health deterioration and a currency that “has already passed the threshold of the 400 pesos for a dollar”, which, he said, has led to “a gigantic inequality” and people “looking for food in the dumps.”
“Today the situation is much worse than the one that existed on July 11, 2021 … today the situation is worse,” he said. The political expreasing also highlighted the increase in internal answer: “Despite repression, the protests have continued.”
Within that framework, Zúñiga said that the Cuban Resistance Assembly (ARC) “has more than 50 organizations inside and outside Cuba” and “has its very clear national salvation project”, “prepared with international experts.” He said that “this is a unique moment”, with “the best possible government in the United States, the best possible secretary of state,” and summoned the conference ‘Save Cuba’ on September 13 to “emphasize our national salvation project.”
For his part, Gutiérrez-Boronat, leader of the ARC, opened the call with a minute of silence for “The murdered Colombian senator Miguel Uribe Turbay”to which he described as “exemplary man” and “martyr of resistance.” Ssaludó “all protests” and the “new Cuban clandestinage” whose actions, he said, are forcing the regime to recognize that there is an internal belligerence. “
Gutiérrez-Boronat defended the unity of exile against discredit campaigns: “We are a historical block. They will not divide us,” he said, and thanked the presence of representatives and organizations of the resistance, as well as emissaries of US legislators.
At another time he recalled that “the regime does not fall[rá] alone. “How does it fall? With the fight, ”he said.
The leader of the Cuban Democratic Directory (DDC) raised explicit goals: “National unemployment, end of the power of the Castro family, end of the Communist Party of Cuba”, which he described as “Joint Criminal Company.” He argued that the maintenance of power by that elite would prevent any real change: “If they maintain a percentage of power, there is no change in Cuba.”
He also described the situation as “an act of genocide as never before has seen the hemisphere” and asked to avoid “repeating the case of Nicaragua”, where, he said, communism “knew how to negotiate his return to power.”
Gutiérrez-Boronat insisted that the announced conference is a work mechanism to “strengthen this movement of change” and set “specific objectives”: “We have tried to propose that with the agreement for democracy with the manifesto of national salvation and with a thesis of liberation, which is national strike.”
In statements a Cubanet After the callGutiérrez-Boronat reiterated the call to climb the pressure: “We must multiply, we must increase this struggle for whatever we have by hand, in the front we can.”
