MIAMI, United States. — The Hemispheric Front for Freedom (FHL) expressed this Wednesday its support for the National Strike in Cuba, an initiative developed on the island and supported by Cuban exile organizations.
The announcement was made public at the headquarters of the Cuban Historical Political Prison (Miami), where representatives of organizations linked to the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC) were present, as well as Martín Elgue, deputy of the National Party of Uruguay and founding member and member of the FHL.
“The National Strike in Cuba is already a reality, it is not an announcement of what is going to be done, but of what is already happening (…). We are supporting all those who are risking their lives for freedom every day,” Elgue told CubaNet.
An open letter entitled “We Cubans, for the salvation of Cuba” was also made public at the headquarters of the Cuban Historic Political Prison, signed by 318 people, including several political prisoners currently incarcerated, such as Mitsael Díaz Paseiro, or former prisoners such as Kessel Rodríguez, and to the that more than 500 signatories have already joined.
“We are seeing that hundreds of Cubans have signed a public letter asking the people of Cuba not to cooperate with the regime in this first phase of the strike. This occurs in the context of protests in Cuba every day, of a lot of repression, but the people of Cuba have demonstrated and have expressed their desire for change,” Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat, coordinator of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance, told this newspaper. (ARC).
Martín Elgue also assured CubaNet that the Caribbean Island is experiencing a defining moment in which “either you are with repressive totalitarianism or you are with freedom.”
“I believe that there are no half measures in this: either you are with the totalitarian communist regime that represses one day in and another also those who, in search of freedom, take to the streets to demonstrate freely, which is not a crime in any way. country of our region, or you are on the path that we are on, which is that of respect for human rights, free expression, free circulation, the free expression of what one thinks and believes.”
Luis Infante, president of the Cuban Historical Political Prison, and former Cuban political prisoner Jorge Luis Pérez, better known as “Antúnez”, also spoke at the ceremony.
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