Several Cuban government organizations called this Thursday for a “Walk for Fidel” to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Castro’s death. The initiative, in charge of Our America Project, has as its starting point, at 4:30 pm, the Quijote park and plans to reach the Malecón in Havana.
Although in their publication they insist that it is an action that they repeat “every year” since 2016, the walk has aroused not a few misgivings because it is very similar to what Yunior García Aguilera intended to do on November 14 and that State Security prevented.
It is not similar only because of the route, but because the organizations ask the protesters to wear “white pullovers and a flower”, which is what the playwright wanted to do, today in Madrid, where he unexpectedly arrived on Wednesday the 17th.
During the activity, to which the Hermanos Saíz Association and the Romerillo Organic Museum have joined, the participants will carry a boat “Granma handcrafted “, made in collaboration with the plastic artist Alexis Leiva Machado Kcho and that they will throw into the sea.
Another commemorative sign this Thursday was the placement, in some neighborhoods of Havana, of loudspeakers at full volume with the voice of the deceased giving speeches, accompanied by songs by Silvio Rodríguez
Given the criticism that Proyecto Nuestra América received for the similarity with García Aguilera’s plan, the organization published the post of the invitation hanging a link to a video That they assure is from the first march and another with photographs of others taken in other years.
Another commemorative sign this Thursday was the placement, in some neighborhoods of Havana, of loudspeakers at full volume with the voice of the deceased giving speeches, accompanied by songs by Silvio Rodríguez and the entire musical repertoire that for years has accompanied the official acts of the regime .
Similarly, in several schools in the Plaza de la Revolución municipality, teachers called on students to write the label #YoSoyFidel on the patio floor with chalk, to paint, draw or write texts “in homage to Fidel.”
The authorities waited just for this November 25 to inaugurate the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, intended “for the study and dissemination of the thought and work” of the former president and located in Paseo y 13, in El Vedado in Havana. They specify that “access will be by invitation” and will take place in the Turquino amphitheater, located in the same building, with an act in which the La Colmenita Children’s Theater Company will participate with a play “created especially for this occasion.”
Outside of these initiatives and the pages of the official press, where this November 25, as in the last five years, the face of Fidel Castro multiplies on the covers, the streets show less enthusiasm every year to commemorate the death of the architect of the Cuban Revolution.
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