Cubans ask for freedom during soccer friendly between Cuba and Uruguay

The association of Free Cubans in Uruguay demonstrated duringthe friendly football match that pitted the Cuban team against that country's team.

Activists of theCuban civil society They traveled to the Centenario stadium in Montevideo, where they displayed banners and posters demanding the release of the political prisoners of the Cuban dictatorship and calling for Freedom and Democracy on the island.

“Free Cubans in Uruguay. Homeland and Life”; “Cuba yes. Not Communism”, were two of the messages launched by the association on banners that they spread in the stands, where their demonstration took place completely normally.

“Here we are showing the Uruguayans which game we need to win,” said an activist who made a live broadcast from the stadium. “No one comes to tell us anything, because Uruguay is a country where freedom of expression is respected,” he added.

The match, which was played as part of the Cuban team's preparation for the 2023 Gold Cup - which will be held in the summer in the United States - was quite eventful.

Cuba tried a lot on the rival goal, however, they did not even manage to open the scoring against a Uruguay that is inspired under the direction of the Argentine coach.Marcelo Bielsa, and who scored two goals for the team he leadsPablo Elier Sánchez.

A penalty in the 26th minute gave the first goal to the Uruguayan team, scored impeccably byFacundo Torres, Orlando City SC player. The second fell in the 79th minute, after a play that culminatedMaximiliano Javier Araújo, player for Deportivo Toluca of the Mexican League.

The Free Cubans association in Uruguay is one of the most active in the region, deploying activism that gains visibility among Uruguayan public opinion and decision-makers in the South American country.

At the end of May a group of CubansHe demonstrated in front of the Cuban embassy after the call launched by the association "for the victims of communism, for the political prisoners of communism, for the complicit silence of the left."

Around the same time, a group of independent Cuban and Uruguayan artists inaugurated a group exhibition in the Exhibition Hall of the José Artigas building, annexed to the Legislative Palace of Uruguay.

Under the title "LiberArte", the creators proposed to "converge to illustrate Cuba and its society", with around twentyworks that showed the last years of struggle for human rights in Cuba.

In September 2021, Cubans residing in Uruguay demonstrated in Montevideo tothank the solidarity of President Luis Lacalle Pou after exposing at the VI summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) the dictatorial and repressive nature of the regime, and quoting verses from Patria y Vida.