Uruguayan representative rejects repressive escalation of the Cuban regime

The Uruguayan deputyJuan Martin Rodriguez, of the National Party of that country, supported the request for freedom of the people of the island and spoke out against the repression of the Cuban regime after the wave ofprotests started on July 11.

Rodríguez, who presented before the Chamberthe resolution that condemns the Cuban State, demanded the immediate release of political prisoners and the beginning of a process of democratic opening in Cuba, at the same time that he took the opportunity to point out that there are many followers of the Cuban dictatorship still in Uruguay.

"There are those who continue to deny that the Cuban regime is a dictatorship. They continue to deny it and will continue to deny it because they do not have the courage to say that they have supported for 60 years the regime that has suffocated and subjected the people to the worst of subjugations,the lack of freedom"Martín said before the House of Representatives of his country.

In his speech, the politician recalled the prominence of theSan Isidro Movement in November 2020 and how these Cubans became an inspiration for thousands of compatriots to take to the streets to demand their rights and confront the repressive forces of the State.

"We have heard for decades that in Cuba it was accepted to dispense with certain civil and political rights because they hadsocial rights that countries and other peoples did not have. And their mask has fallen," he said, alluding to the lie that the Cuban Government has tried to transmit for decades to Latin America and the world.

Rodríguez also referred to the myth of Cuba as a great health power and pointed out that currently the island's hospital centers are extremely deteriorated, lacking medicines and supplies necessary to offer services.

He also referred to thedeaths in popular protests that the Cuban State refuses to recognize. In this sense, he indicated that, although only one death is officially reported, there are complaints that since July 11 to date more than a dozen people have died in Cuba due to police repression.

The Uruguayan politician denounced theInternet blockade in Cuba, directed by the government to silence what is happening on the island, and made reference to the fighting attempts that Cuban opponents have been making to achieve a dialogue that leads to change, although he noted that he does not believe that such a thing is possible.

In this sense, he recalled the violence of the Cuban State against theLadies in White and how when you are received in Uruguay by the presidentJose Mujica, the president had to face criticism within his own political party.

"Cubans have taken to the streets under a single cry, the cry of Freedom," he said. "The Cuban regime made Cubans fight in the streets against Cubans. That regime that to this day in Uruguay continues to have defenders," said the deputy.

On July 11, an unprecedented wave of protests occurred in Cuba. Citizens took to the streets in different cities of the country to demand their rights and in rejection of the State's repression and the failed economic policies that have plunged the country into a deep humanitarian crisis for decades that is worsening with the coronavirus pandemic.