Police fences in homes and internet cuts on cell phones to opponents, activists and independent journalists, marked this May 20 on the Island, during the 121st anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Cuba. part of the writing of 14ymedio She was incommunicado throughout the day due to the interruption of her mobile lines.
The area of the Havana coast was also, from early hours of this Saturday, under an intense operation. The call launched by some activists to remember the founding of the Republic caused State Security agents and uniformed police officers to patrol the area, position themselves on corners and monitor everyone who came near the Malecón.
At the confluence of Calle Galiano with Avenida del Malecón, several vehicles of the political police and a strong operation were observed around noon. This newspaper received reports of Military Service recruits who were transferred from their units to monitor the coastal zone because “something is going to happen on May 20,” according to the scandalized comment of the mother of one of these young men.
At the confluence of Calle Galiano with Avenida del Malecón, several vehicles of the political police and a strong operation were observed around noon.
The activist Agustín López Canino, who had summoned to commemorate the anniversary on the Malecón in Havana, broadcast live from his Facebook profile, early in the morning, to denounce that they were going to arrest him. “They are coming for me. They have informed me that the patrol is advancing here, towards my house and well, let’s see what comes of all this from May 20, I will not be able to transmit more because they are already arriving [la policía]”.
“Thanks to all those who are concerned about the freedom of Cuba… and about what must be done here peacefully to claim the rights that correspond to us due to the human condition,” added the leader of the Cubanos de Adentro y de Abajo movement who resides in in El Globo, Calabazar, and that has been arrested previous years for the same date.
“Also for the 121st anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Cuba, this May 20 they have ‘gifted’ us a post from three political police agents outside our building to prevent us from leaving,” he denounced on his Facebook page. , Yoani Sanchezdirector of 14ymedioafter making public that the regime had internet access cut offa repressive action of which the journalist Boris González was also a victim.
The application of repressive measures, already common on this date, is in line with the statements of the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, who pointed out last year that only “annexationists” celebrate May 20
The activist Niurka Caridad Ortega Cruz, a member of Cuba Independiente Democrática (CID), received a summons from the Ministry of the Interior for this May 20 with the aim of “being interviewed” at the Calabazar police station. The document, shared by friends on social networks, is signed by “Captain José” and is nothing more than another repressive instrument to keep opponents of the May 20 commemoration away.
The application of repressive measures, already common on this date, is in line with the statements of the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, who pointed out last year that only “annexationists” celebrate May 20, when Cuba was “kidnapped by the empire until 1959”.
However, 90 miles across the Florida Straits, Miami Cubans celebrated May 20 with a series of political and cultural events.
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