The Cuban reggaeton player, Yomil Hidalgo, received the support of a group of Cubans who witnessed his arrest in the protests last Sunday, and refused to get into a patrol car, as confirmed by a video published by the artist on his social networks this Monday.
“Record them, record them all, so that you can see the high level of repression that people experience here”Yomil commented to his companion, seconds before confronting the police while inside his vehicle.
“Tell me, what happened, how is he? Where to? Tell me where to go, and I'll follow you. I'm not going to give you the documents, tell me where to go and I'll follow you,” Yomil told the police officers who ordered him to get out of the car.
The tension increased when they repeatedly ordered him to get off and The reggaeton singer refused, claiming that he could not leave the car there and that there was no social distancing in the patrol car.
“I'm not going to get in that car with any of you, there is no social distancing of any kind there,” said the reggaeton singer, who saw how neighbors in the area began to gather around the vehicle.
Another moment of tension was an exchange of glances with one of the agents, which led to a sharp dialogue between the reggaeton singer and a police officer.
When the police assumed that Yomil was not going to get out of the vehicle, they sent him to follow them to the Zanja Police Station, in Central Havana, but that was when Many residents of the area tried to prevent the reggaeton player from advancing and told him not to go.
“It doesn't matter, gentleman, it doesn't matter. “I knew,” the reggaeton player responded and suggested that if they wanted to support him, they should go to Zanja. After an arrest that lasted a few hours, Yomil thanked the people through his networks for their concern and confirmed that he was detained at the aforementioned police station.
“They have already released me, thanks to everyone who was outside Zanja waiting, once again my commitment is to the people because they were with me at all times,” Yomil wrote.
After giving unconditional support to the protesters since Sunday morning, the popular singer ended up joining the protests along with Iraisel, widow of his colleague El Dany, and headed to the Capitol in Havana, where one of the protests took place. largest concentrations throughout the country.
When he tried to get closer, he ran into a group of government defenders who began to attack him and tried to get him out of there, but another group of his followers avoided him. "That is what cannot happen here," said Yomil about the confrontation between Cubans themselves, driven by Miguel Díaz-Canel's revanchist speech on television.
"We have been suffering for a long time, this is a historic moment for our entire community, we have to be intelligent. If they respond to us with violence, we respond peacefully, and let the government see that there is a people crying out for change.", the artist said on Sunday before a crowd that even chanted his name.
Before taking to the streets, Yomil had published several messages on Twitter, in which he assured that he would represent his people because "the artist owes himself to the people" and that "from so much hunger we suffered, we ate fear."
"My unconditional support for my people and I cry with pride in knowing that we are all waking up, for a country with a better future," he also wrote.
What do you think?
SEE COMMENTS (1)Filed in:
