The old woman, now 85 years old, became famous for her phrase “We take off the clothing of silence.”
MIAMI, United States. – Sonia Quesada Ruiz, the old woman who went viral during the protests of July 11, 2021 (11J) in Havana when saying before a camera “We have lived more than 60 years in lies and deception, and this has to end. We take off the clothing of silence,” he sent a message to Donald Trump and Miguel Díaz-Canel after meet with a collaborator CubaNet in Havana.
The 85-year-old woman contrasted praise for Trump with direct accusations of Díaz-Canel. She attributed the first to having hit Castroism and awakening in her expectations of change. “I admire you, President Trump, for dealing the hardest blow to the casteists,” he stated. “I admire you, President Trump, for ending the sister tyranny of our tyranny.” [la de Nicolás Maduro en Venezuela]”.
The woman also assured that her admiration is related to the future of minors on the Island. “I admire you, President Trump, because the children of Cuba have a childhood, which did not exist,” she said. He also praised the American president for his “dignity” and for possessing, in his words, “the power to end the anguish and despair of the poor of this day.”
Quesada Ruiz even affirmed that Trump will remain in the memory of Cubans “and the entire world.” “President Trump, you will always, always be in the present hearts of Cubans and the entire world,” he expressed.
In contrast, the second part of his message focuses on a list of accusations against Díaz-Canel. “I accuse you, President Díaz-Canel, for destroying the dignity of the people of Cuba. I accuse you, President Díaz-Canel, for mocking the ideals of our apostle José Martí.”
In another passage, he blamed the Cuban ruler for the scenes of lack: “I accuse you, President Díaz-Canel, for making the smiles of our children disappear.”
The woman also linked Díaz-Canel with the expansion of establishments in US dollars throughout the country: “I accuse you of creating those stores in which Cuban money has no quality (…). I accuse you, President Díaz-Canel, wherever you go that the earth sinks, neither you nor the Castro henchmen who imposed on you deserve to be there.”
Quesada Ruiz assures that he was born in 1940, “in the midst of capitalism, where life was very different from those times, where there was ethical education, patriotism (…). We loved Martí. The children knew who the apostle was and they knew the pink shoes. Not today. Today children talk about money.”
The old woman also said: “Today I feel so happy, but so happy… because I never thought that (…) I was going to be free.”
