“The Cuban problem is not called Yunior García, the Cuban problem is called dictatorship.” This is how forceful the playwright and opponent has been from Madrid, where he has offered a press conference to tell about the “terror” to which he has been subjected by the Cuban government and that has pushed him to leave the island.
“The revolution devoured their children and their grandchildren,” he denounced before counting chronologically how he reached the opposition militancy.
García Aguilera has criticized the government from the left, calling it a “conservative caste” that exploits the workers and uses the wildest capitalism, building hotels in the harshest moments of the pandemic. The creator of Archipelago has compared the Cuban regime with that of the Chilean Augusto Pinochet and has insisted that the leadership of power lives in a “bourgeois” way while he is a “true revolutionary.”
“What exists in Cuba is fascism, what I have experienced in recent days cannot be called something else,” he stressed in reference to the threats and harassment of which he has been the target. “How can anyone believe that this is on the left?”
“If they kill me they make me a symbol, if they take me to jail they make me a symbol”
The activist has recounted the harassment he was subjected to in recent days, at which time, convinced that he would be detained, he applied for a preventive visa with which he tried to achieve some type of subsequent negotiation that would help him get out of prison. However, after November 15, when he had been in solitary confinement for hours, he was aware that the Government did not intend to arrest him.
“If they kill me they make me a symbol, if they take me to jail they make me a symbol”, he said. It was at that moment that he realized, he assures, that the Government was planning to keep him away from society by being locked up in his home, a situation that he could not bear.
“If the only thing I have is my voice and they take it from me, then they have won,” said García, who stressed that a “living death” awaited him in Cuba. Illustratively, he has recounted the day he suffered an act of repudiation that included bird corpses on the fence of his house and has used the image as a metaphor. “If we stay in Cuba they will behead us like doves,” he said.
The opponent has repeatedly declared his intention to return after curing his anger at recent events. García Aguilera has repeated that he refuses to accept the asylum offer that he supposedly received from Spain and has said that Cuba is his country and his mother and son are there, so it does not even occur to him to stay in Madrid for a long time. term.
The founder of Archipelago has revealed that on the 14th, despite having the phone cut off, he found a means of communication through which he got in touch with the cardinal of Havana, whom he asked to pray for him because he was afraid of having Rage. “I needed to heal my anger to find my balance. I never wanted to stop being tolerant.”
The playwright has also apologized to his fellow Achipiélago for not being able to bear more pressure. “I have to forgive myself for being human and ask for forgiveness for not being made of stone or bronze,” he added.
García Aguilera has also rejected the US embargo, which he has considered that he acts as an ally of the regime by providing excuses, and has vindicated the use of dialogue with all political forces if the time comes.
The opponent, who has been moved by talking about his seven-year-old son, has pleaded with the international press to look for the stories of anonymous Cubans who have not had the luck that he
The opponent, who has been moved by talking about his seven-year-old son, has pleaded with the international press to look for the stories of anonymous Cubans who have not had the luck that he, who has been able to leave the island thanks to his visibility.
He has also claimed the names of José Daniel Ferrer, leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (Unpacu), Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, visible head of the San Isidro Movement, Fleíx Navarro, of the group of 75, and Maykel Osorbo Castle.
García Aguilera has taken the opportunity to close the press conference with a message that calls on the international community to provide assistance and rejecting, for the umpteenth time, an armed intervention.
“That anger does not win us. This cannot become a bloodbath. It is the only way we have to get out of this, because we cannot continue to be slaves. But we cannot achieve freedom at that price either.” The regime has become an abusive husband who beats his wife and the only way to avoid that is if the world looks to Cuba. “
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