MIAMI, United States. – The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance reported this Tuesday that more activists from the Island have joined the national strike for the freedom of Cuba, proposed in a letter that already has hundreds of signatories.
Arianna López Roque and José Díaz Silva, political prisoners of the Cuban regime, also signed the document that asks Cubans to join the “national strike,” which begins “with action based on conscience.”
“The time has come not to cooperate in the least with the regime, to take to the streets at every opportunity and place we can to demand our freedom and then proceed, when the conditions are right, to the great general strike,” the document indicates. signed by hundreds of activists throughout the Island.
According to the Assembly of the Resistance, based in Miami, there are already 454 people who “have committed to carrying out a national strike for the freedom of Cuba, in the face of the socioeconomic crisis and the high levels of repression that the country is experiencing.” .
Since July 11, 2021, there have been more than 3,000 public demonstrations of discontent and protests in Cuba, according to a note released by the organization on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the letter signed by more than 400 activists came to light a few days after the protests that have taken place in different parts of Cuba,
“The extreme situation we are experiencing, of repression, lack of electricity, shortages of all kinds, is the accumulated result of the policies that a dictatorship that has been in power for 63 years has imposed on the people. Faced with this reality, and especially since July 11, 2021, the people are openly resisting, losing fear by leaps and bounds in a national challenge to tyranny,” the document reads.
Call for national strike
The so-called national strike has been supported from the Island with videos of activists and civil society actors who call on Cubans to join. Members of different civic organizations, including from Los Palacios, in Pinar del Río, one of the places where the last wave of protests began in Cuba, are calling for the end of the dictatorship.
Last March, the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance ad that posters calling for a National Strike had appeared at the entrance of “hundreds of houses in Cuba.”
The organization also indicated that the call for a national strike had increased “in the last few hours” with new signs in public places in and around Havana.
“Using the phrase ‘The strike goes’, more citizens on the Island continue to join the campaign of the national strike for freedom,” they said.
The campaign of the national strike for freedom was called by political prisoners and activists on the island to ask the population to cease all types of collaboration with the Cuban regime, and the dissemination of the campaign accelerated after the regime’s conviction of 128 people. who demonstrated on July 11 and 12, 2021.
Dr. Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, coordinator of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance and the Cuban Democratic Directorate, has repeatedly shown the support of Cuban exiles for the national strike on the island.
“We have hundreds of activists from the eastern provinces to Pinar del Río organizing workshops, holding citizen assemblies, calling a strike. This is an idea that originally emerged in political prisons by Cubans who are incarcerated,” said Gutierrez-Boronat a CubaNet at the end of 2021.
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