Mayor of Miami: "Cuba is a machine of repression and violence"

The mayor ofMiami, Francis Suarez, described Cuba as “a machine ofrepression and violence”, after the reaction of the regime against the protesters whoThey peacefully protested this Saturday afternoon in Caimanera, Guantánamo.

“This is for people who think that Cuba is a paradise. It is a machine of repression and violence. It is also a time machine from the 60s,” Suárez noted this Sunday on Twitter, where he shared a message from the Cuban opposition figure Rosa María Payá, with strong images of the repression against the people who went out to demonstrate this Saturday in Caimanera.

“Distrust the growth of government or government as the solver of all problems. “Communism/socialism does not work and will never work,” the Mayor of Miami added on the social network.

Along with his publication, Suárez published a message from Payá in which he refers to the brutal reaction of the Cuban military against citizens of the eastern town of the island.

“The dictatorship sends the military to beat women and men who are demonstrating massively and peacefully tonight in #Cuba for FREEDOM #SOSCUBA #CAMBIODESISTE,” said the promoter of the Cuba Decide platform.

Also this SundayU.S. government qualifiedthe repression of the Cuban regime against the Caimanera protesters as “cruel and useless”.

“Last night, Cuban security forces responded violently to peaceful protests in the town of Caimanera, beating citizens for demanding human rights,” the organization noted on Twitter this Sunday.United States Embassy in Cuba.

The diplomatic headquarters also condemned the cutting of the Internet service to restrict the freedom of expression of citizens on the island.

“Cuba also closed its Internet for fear of freedom of expression,” says the message, which adds that “Cuban repression of the rights of its citizens is cruel and useless; “freedom always wins.”

A massive protest took place at dusk this Saturday in the Guantanamo municipality of Caimanera when dozens of people took to the streets shouting “Freedom.”

Videos that circulated on social networks showed how the inhabitants of that municipality bordering the Guantanamo Naval Base marched en masse through the streets of the town in protest against the shortages and blackouts.

Furthermore, it was reported thatthe Cuban regime cut off the internet connection throughout the national territory, after the demonstration of hundreds of residents of that eastern town who peacefully took to the streets to protest the inefficient management of the crisis by the government and demanding "Freedom."

During the day, it was also learned thatThe peaceful protest of citizens was violently repressed by members of the Special Brigades of theMinisterio del Interior (MININT) from Cuba.

"The attached video confirms the repression of the Caimanera protest. According to a testimony consulted, two young people were transferred to the Guantánamo Operations Center after being beaten by Black Berets," the independent platform indicated via Twitter.Justicia11J.

Dedicated since July 2021 to documenting the state response to public protest events, especially to the demonstrations around 11J, the Cuban civil society platform took less than 24 hours to collectthe first testimonies of arrests for political reasons in Caimanera.

"This is how the military of the Castro dictatorship beat the women and men who were peacefully protesting in Caimanera, Guantánamo, while they cut off the internet. @el_pais @borjaechevarria @paconadal @EFEnoticias @Reuters @EFEnoticias @nytimes is happening now in Cuba," he denounced in On its social networks, the Cuba platform says NO to the dictatorship, while urging international media to reflect the repression unleashed.

For its part, the Cuban regime blamedthree alleged drunks from the massive anti-government protest, after violent images of the repression by forces of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) were disseminated.

Lázaro Castellanos Matos, member of the Municipal Bureau of the Caimanera Party, assured that the demonstration began with three subjects who were drunk.

"Total tranquility in the streets of the first anti-imperialist trench, Caimanera. The response of the people will always be in defense of the homeland and citizen tranquility as a conquest of the revolution," he stated inFacebook.

The Ministry of the Armed Forces on Saturday night said on Twitter that “in the municipality of Caimanera there was indiscipline at a public party by drunk people. "The population contributed to restoring order, for several hours there has been calm in the town."

The Cuban Foreign MinisterBruno Rodríguez Parrilla assured this Sunday that “the people's loyalty to their revolution is solid.”, a few hours from the demonstration in Caimanera.

“The fidelity of the people to their Revolution and the decision to fight tirelessly to make our dreams of prosperity and social justice come true are solid. We will continue to put #ALaPatriaManosYCorazón, with the certainty that there is no blockade or insurmountable obstacles,” the head of theMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba (MINREX).

Also in a previous publication on his social network account he spread a phrase from the dictator Fidel Castro referring to that “the threats to the peace of humanity come, precisely, from those who defend colonialism, those who defend imperialism. (...) of those who oppose the right of people to be free and enjoy a better life.”

In that same network, the ruler Díaz-Canel sent a message similar to that of his Chancellor in which he also cited a phrase by Fidel Castro in which he said that “our era is characterized by a fact that is unprecedented: the threat to survival of the human species imposed by imperialism on the world.”

“No one believes that speech anymore. The time to apply constitutional justice against you is coming,” responded a network user to the head of MINREX.

Another Internet user also commented that “Caimanera gave more demonstration than the fake parade. Freedom is what we need, no more lies and manipulation.”