Dozens of neighbors took to the streets this Wednesday night in the Humberto Álvarez popular council, in Matanzas. “There were a lot of people and the police couldn’t do anything,” a resident of the batey del former Dos Rosas plantbetween Santa Marta and Varadero, with a large migrant population from the east of the country and several neighborhoods of arrive and put.
“The place is quite violent, so it was not easy,” reports the same source.
in videos shared on social networks, you hear, in tumult, the noise of saucepans and shouts asking: “join.” The area is currently without internet.
Meanwhile, in Nuevitas (Camagüey), the regime has managed to silence, with repression and for the moment, the mass protests last week, the most important in Cuba since 11J.
“People here are very afraid because they have taken people who did not even go out to protest that day, simply for being from the doorway of the house recording those who passed by,” a neighbor from the Pastelillo neighborhood tells this newspaper. one of those who took to the streets The last friday.
On the same block, he says, “they have already loaded two, one of them a boy who doesn’t mess with anyone and has a little girl”
The young woman does not even want to give her name to 14ymedio: “My mother is in a pure fright and she doesn’t want me to tell anyone about what is happening, lest I be the next one they take away.”
In the same block, he says, “they have already loaded two, one of them a kid who doesn’t mess with anyone and has a little girl.” His wife, she assures, “she is desperate because she has no news of where she is, although what is said is that she is transferring them to the city of Camagüey.”
“There is a pile of people who are not from here patrolling the streets, some in civilian clothes and also roosterswhich are complete in black,” he says, referring to calls black wasps either Black Berets. “There is a lot of annoyance because of that because it is seen that they go through the streets to instill fear.”
In addition, it extends: “Two nights ago they took off the light and played music at full blast at Bar La Patana. People were very angry with that because the whole neighborhood was in the dark and they were having fun in that place and provoking the people with their songs. I have seen many older people swallow dry with what they are doing to us. Even a neighbor of mine, who until a week ago was tremendous candle-eatershe is upset because a nephew of hers is among those detained and they took him away from the house.” The neighbor tells her that her nephew was left no choice but to protest “because the only thing he has had in his life is misery “.
The internet signal, which had been cut off in Nuevitas for more than three days, is gradually returning, but the police have heavily guarded stores selling freely convertible currency (MLC).
“The Nuevitas park is completely militarized. They inform us that there are about 8 motorized police, 6 patrol cars, 3 cars with black berets and countless policemen”
Justice 11J confirms this scenario in a statement issued this wednesday: “The Nuevitas park is completely militarized. They inform us that there are about 8 motorized police officers, 6 patrol cars, 3 cars with black berets and countless police officers.”
In its update, the platform, which has registered fifty detainees throughout Cuba since the cacerolazos began in mid-June due to the scheduled blackouts, denounces that those arrested in Nuevitas amount to 18.
Among them, the 11-year-old girls beaten by the police on the night of August 19. “From the morning Ivón Freijoo and Daimarelis Echeverría were taken for interrogation, along with their daughters, Beatriz Aracelia Rodríguez Freijoo and Gerlin Torrente Echevarría, respectively,” the organization specifies in a statement. post of Facebook, taking up a complaint from the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights.
The organization reveals that the father of Beatriz and husband of Ivón Freijoo, Frank Carly Rodríguez Ultra, arrived in the United States and that at the moment “he is being held by border guards.” For this reason, they warn of the “danger that returning to Cuba poses for this father and this family” and ask the US immigration authorities to “assess his request for political asylum based on credible fear.”
By the way, the young neighbor who spoke with 14ymedio assures: “I know that there are people who participated in the march who jumped into a raft over the weekend. They were like ten young people who knew that if they were caught they would end up in jail.”
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