The liberal MEP José Ramón Bauzá demanded the government of Miguel Diaz-Canel the release of political prisoners and asked the European Union to stop financing repression in Cuba.
In a video shared on his social network account
Bauzá had words for those who stood up on March 17 in Santiago de Cuba, Bayamo and Cárdenas, whom he compared with those who did it in July 2021.
“The European Union must show its strongest support,” he declared and demanded the high representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and vice president of the European Commission, Joseph Borrell, demanding that the Cuban authorities allow demonstrations and refrain from violence.
The voices demanding democracy in Cuba are more common within the European Parliament. Recently, in a unified call, A group of 34 MEPs of various political tendencies, mostly Spanish, urged Borrell to undertake "concrete steps" towards the democratization of the Island.
The request was framed in the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement with Cuba (ADPC), with the objective of achieving the release of political prisoners and moving towards a more open and democratic society on the Caribbean island, according to the agency. WHICH.
It has also been important request for sanctions to be imposed against the ruler of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, accusing him of being the person most responsible for a "repressive apparatus" that attacks dissent on the Island.
European parliamentarians have described the situation in Cuba as a "shame for the Western world", while urging a reconsideration of relations between the European Union and the Caribbean nation.
On March 17, Residents of Santiago de Cuba rose up in peaceful protest to demand improvements in living conditions. The spark spread to El Cobre, Bayamo and Cárdenas.
The regime, as is usual practice, unleashed the repression to silence protests it is included fined, arrested and disappeared several Cubans for this act.
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