The Military Conscientious Objectors group (MOC) asks the agents of the Cuban security forces to put themselves “on the side of the people” and help “to put an end to this corrupt mafia dictatorship.”
In a statement issued this Sunday, the organization, founded in 2021 by former Cuban officers in exilerefers to the “new national repressive wave” implied by the actions against the protests in Nuevitas (Camagüey) from this weekendand asserts that “it must be forcefully rejected by the entire country, but especially by the Revolutionary Armed Forces.”
“Our comrades-in-arms cannot and should not comply with the orders issued by a dictatorship that disregarded the well-being of the people and today pushes Cubans into ever greater misery!” they cry out in their text.
“The Eastern Army should not act as a private troop at the service of those who ride their yachts while millions of Cubans go to bed without eating, without electricity, without medicine and without a roof over their heads”
MOC urges General Rigel Tejeda, head of the Eastern Army, to guarantee that “his troops do not act as henchmen or mercenaries of the new oligarchy.” His predecessor, apostrophize, apparently referring to General Onelio Aguilera Bermúdez, “did not stain his hands with blood on July 11, 2021. Do not give in to pressure to muddy your career and that of the commanders subordinate to your person.” “.
The Eastern Army, the retired military insist, “should not act as a private troop at the service of those who cruise their yachts while millions of Cubans go to bed without eating, without electricity, without medicine and without a roof over their heads.”
In addition to expelling the current rulers from power, the former officers call for the “nationalization” of the Gaesa military conglomerate, which they refer to as “the monopoly that this new oligarchy has registered as a Panamanian company, controls 60% of the economy, does not accounts to any institution in Cuba and let die [durante la pandemia] tens of thousands of Cubans for lack of oxygen cylinders, medicine and ambulances while spending billions of dollars to build new luxury hotels.
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