“It is beautiful that we coincide in showing our claim to absolute freedoms through flowers”, wrote singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés in a message of support for the protests called for this Monday throughout Cuba. Like the author of Yolanda and I do not ask you, dozens of Cuban and foreign artists have expressed their support for the Civic March for Change on November 15.
“My contempt for those mobs that they use to ‘represent the best of the people.’ “Milanes said when expressing his support for” Yunior García Aguilera and all the Cubans he represents and who fight inside and outside of Cuba. “
The troubadour also shared the lyrics of his song Flowers of the future, along with a video interpreting the song in a concert in Alicante (Spain), on November 11. Between the verses of the song it is read: “Not everything is dead / there is someone awake / who will be thinking / for you and for him”.
“All eyes on our brothers on the Island. Eyes on Cuba,” Rosa María Payá asked from Miami, after the Cuban Government denied the landing authorization for a flight to the Island on Monday morning in which, In addition to the activist, MEP Hermann Tertsch and influencer Alexander Otaola would travel to support the demonstrations. “Today, the regime could prevent it, but the reunification of our nation is unstoppable, because the people inside and outside are determined to recover the Homeland and Life,” Payá wrote on his social networks.
I am ashamed of others that people of my race lend themselves to be like the ancient hunters of maroons of their own torture and pain. They are using them
Yotuel Romero, one of the interpreters of the song Homeland and Life, wrote: “November 15 will definitely change history for our suffering people.” Alexander Delgado, from the duo Gente de Zona and also a participant in the song Homeland and Life which has become the anthem of the protests on the island, condemned the acts of repudiation against opponents who have made public their intention to participate in the civic protest. “The reality is that the demonstration is a worldwide right,” he said.
“Today is another day that this dictatorship is more despised,” he wrote this Sunday on his social networks Yomil hidalgo, a message that accompanied a photo of a silhouette of the Island of Cuba made with white roses. “It is very difficult to live kidnapped and repudiated for thinking differently, enough injustices, that Cuba belongs to no one or a few, it belongs to all Cubans,” added the reggaeton artist who lives in Havana and asked for freedom “for our people.” .
Another musician of the urban genre who manifested himself was the Puerto Rican Don Omar: “I go to my Cuban brothers, I bet on the freedom and justice they need so much. It goes through the time in isolation, because of the scarcity, because of the mistreatment, for those who have innocently died in search of respect for the rights of others that always it has been peace. ” In other messages supporting the protests, he has used the tags 15N #, #somosmasynotenemosmiedo and #patriayvida.
For his part, the clarinetist, saxophonist and composer Paquito D’Rivera He addressed a “solidarity salute” for all Cubans who are going to participate in the 15N march “for the final freedom” of Cuba, which has been “prey to totalitarianism for more than 60 years.”
The clarinetist, saxophonist and composer Paquito D’Rivera gave a “greeting of solidarity” to all Cubans who are going to participate in the 15N march “for the final freedom” of Cuba.
In a transmission on social networks during a demonstration in support of 15N in Miami this Sunday, the trumpeter and pianist Arturo Sandoval together with actor Andy García, both of Cuban origin, affirmed “to support the cause of the freedom of Cuba.”
“Very soon it will be 63 years of that shameful dictatorship of Cuba. It is too much. I believe that these people need freedom, they need to breathe, they need to know what freedom is,” Sandoval said. On November 15, he affirmed that it was a day that all Cubans looked forward to with “great anxiety.”
“This is the time to tell the Cuban people that we are with them,” Garcia said, emphasizing: “That repressive dictatorship that exists in Cuba can no longer be allowed.”
“The youth of Cuba in which I believe a lot, will be able to show the world what it is to live in freedom and democracy and they will be able to teach the triumph of what a new Cuba is,” said, for his part, the musician Emilio estefan. His wife, the singer Gloria Estefan He also expressed his support for 15N and pointed out that Cubans “will raise their voices peacefully as they did on July 11 to express their dissatisfaction with that regime that has oppressed them for more than 62 years.”
Actor William Levy asked that all eyes in the world be on the Island. “Let the whole world see what happens. We need all your support to end this dictatorship,” he wrote on Instagram. “One day I left Cuba, but Cuba never left me,” he said in another message.
“Very soon it will be 63 years of that shameful dictatorship of Cuba. It is too much. I believe that these people need freedom, they need to breathe, they need to know what freedom is.”
The Panamanian singer-songwriter Ruben Blades He expressed his full support for the Cuban people and their right to self-determination in a video posted this Sunday on his Facebook page. “I believe in the exchange of ideas, I believe in the possibility that a society by itself can determine its path and its destiny, so based on that I am with the people of Cuba, as I have always been,” said the musician .
“In the case of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, we support as always those who demand freedom to express their thoughts, the right to vote and we condemn the government’s repression of their dictatorships,” he added.
On November 10, a group of former leftist presidents, artists and writers to end the island’s regime, signed a letter published by the official media Cubadebate in which they blamed the United States for any demonstration against the Government of Cuba. They also asked that the United States “stop its attempts to destabilize a nation that at no time has taken action against its security.” Among the signatories are the journalist Ignacio Ramonet, the writers Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Martín Almada, and the musician Chico Buarque.
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