The businesswoman Saily González, one of the most active coordinators of the Archipelago since its creation, announced this Sunday that she is leaving the Cuban opposition platform. She was joined this Monday by activist Magdiel Jorge Castro.
“Today I am leaving Archipelago, the most important undertaking to which I have contributed in my life and the human group that has been and is the most fraternal to me,” González wrote in a tweet. The reason, he continued, is that his world “goes at 48 frames per second and logic makes the Archipelago walk at 24.” And he asked: “Do not look for more reasons that there are not.”
In a post From Facebook, clarified: “No, gentlemen, I am not leaving the country”, after arguing: “We have the common objective of conquering all the rights for all Cubans, of ensuring that we can all contribute to our country, and the fronts on which I fight They will never be exclusive, as the Archipelago is not. This brings us together, and also sister with me, everyone who thinks this way. “
González, also called “Saily de Amarillo” for the small eponymous business he opened in Santa Clara In the hotel sector, it has been one of the most visible heads of the Archipelago since the group called the march on November 15, finally frustrated by threats and repression of State Security.
That 15N, an angry and violent mob prevented the young woman from leaving her house, and she limited herself to following the two slogans agreed upon in Archipelago: give applause at three in the afternoon and spread her white sheets. Days later, and as announced, it came out with a flower in hand and broadcast the walk by video, which ended by placing the flower at the foot of the statue of Antonio Maceo in Santa Clara.
This Monday, the tweeter Magdiel Jorge Castro, a resident of Bolivia two years ago, also announced his departure.
After the regime disrupted the Civic March for Change through threats, acts of repudiation and militarization of the cities, the Archipelago called for the peaceful protests to continue until November 27. However, since the arrival in Spain, on November 17, of the most visible figure on the platform, Yunior Garcia Aguilera, the group has been dismembered.
This Sunday, the Twitter user Magdiel Jorge Castro, who has lived in Bolivia for two years, also announced his departure. “Today I leave Archipelago, grateful for these intense months with such brave people,” he wrote on his Twitter account, where he has more than 26,000 followers. “The road to democracy is long and rugged but the end deserves every possible sacrifice. There are more than 600 political prisoners and a dictatorship to topple. It is time to unite.”
Castro, born in the province of Holguín in 1994, has been the promoter of several virtual campaigns to denounce the repression against Cuban activists and journalists. The young man has a degree in Microbiology and in recent weeks he has denounced several attacks by the Cuban government press against him for his activism on social networks.
His and González’s join other “desertions” from the Archipelago in just a few days. On Friday, the lawyer Fernando Almeyda He resigned as one of the coordinators of the platform. By way of explanation, he said that “the political nuance of the platform and its coordinators, although I am sure that they benefit the Cuban cause, is moving away from my ideas, my way of thinking and my political position.”
In addition, the jurist was critical of Yunior García Aguilera’s “agenda”, “which does not respond to the objectives and purposes of the Archipelago and over which the members have no real control.”
Before González and Almeyda, the group had already suffered notable losses. One of them was Daniela red, which last Wednesday announced her resignation as coordinator of the platform. The young woman from Guanabacoa, mother of two young children, who was kidnapped by the political police on November 12 and spent five days in a house of the Ministry of the Interior under the custody of several agents, argued her decision on “personal and family problems.” .
And another exit, earlier, was that of the teacher Leonardo Fernandez Otaño, also moderator of the platform, who confessed, like Almeyda, not to share “a group of actions of a political nature carried out by Yunior García Aguilera since his departure from Cuba.”
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