(EFE) .- Dariel Fernández, new president of the Cuban opposition movement Somos +, assumes this Wednesday the leadership of this international organization in a ceremony in Miami (Florida) with the commitment “not to give up until the Cuban people are completely free.”
Fernández, a Cuban businessman from South Florida, owner of the advertising agency Ponemus, replaces the well-known opponent as president of the organization. Eliecer Avila, who was detained dozens of times in Cuba, including with his pregnant wife, until he was able to leave and settle in the United States, where his daughter was born.
“Our Cuban people have suffered atrocities, oppression and misery at the hands of the communist Castro regime for almost 63 years, but that is not the future of my Cuba.”
“Our Cuban people have suffered atrocities, oppression and misery at the hands of the communist Castros regime for almost 63 years, but that is not the future of my Cuba,” said Fernández, who arrived in Miami in the mid-1990s. The businessman added that his objective and that of the dissident organization is to unite with “Cubans from the island and from Florida and all those who defend freedom and democracy in the world.”
“I will always defend those who tirelessly fight to bring freedom to Cuba. We cannot give up until the Cuban people are truly free,” said Fernández when he learned that the organization had elected him president.
The Cuban will officially assume office this afternoon at a ceremony that will take place at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, in Miami.
Somos + was founded as a movement that “summons all Cubans who wish to participate in the beautiful and difficult adventure of helping to build a modern, prosperous and free country,” the organization says on its website.
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