The human rights defense organization,International Amnesty (AI), condemned therepression against the peaceful protesters who came outprotest against the regime in Caimanera, Guantanamo.
“We demand that Miguel Díaz-Canel desist from repressing,” Erika Guevara Rosas, AI director for the Americas, said on Twitter this Saturday.
Also in his messages he stressed that “Díaz-Canel's violent forces do the only thing they know how to do: repress the people and violate their rights. H H.".
Likewise, they reported the cuts to the Internet service, which they described as “alarming” because “we know that it is the prelude to the repressive storm exerted by Díaz-Canel and his violent forces to punish the Cuban people.”
This Sunday, also, theU.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.”
Likewise, on this day the mayor of Miami,Francis Suárez, described Cuba as “a machine of repression and violence,” after the regime's reaction against the Caimanera protesters.
“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.
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."
It was also known 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.
"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."
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