The regime mobilized this Saturday against Cuban activists to prevent citizen demonstrations on the eve of the anniversary of the death in combat of the Cuban National Hero, José Martí, and in the context of growing popular discontent over prolonged power outages on the island.
The activists Wilber Aguilar Bravo, and the intellectuals Jorge Fernández Era and Miryorly García have reported threats to their homes.
Yesterday they said that no one is repressed for thinking differently and today I wake up like this. I am an ordinary Cuban with thousands of problems and you continue your harassment against me and my family. In a country where there are no blind people but many mute ones. Freedom for my son Walnier and all political prisoners. Without freedom of expression, without freedom of movement, without freedom of demonstration, without freedom of any kind. FREEEEEEDOM," Aguilar Bravo denounced in a Facebook post.
Likewise, he posted images of the siege of several police cars outside his residence.
Fernández Era also stated that since the morning a patrol car with two uniformed police officers has been stationed at the bottom of his house, and even when he went out to take out the trash, they escorted him to the car and requested his ID. "They are so dishonest that they do not accept that I am the target of such deployment. They are only, they say with absolute cynicism, 'doing their job,'" he expressed.
The editor and researcher Miryorly García, on her part, said she was handed "an illegal prohibition from leaving my house, an illegal and temporary house arrest. The only explanation I can see is that today is the 18th and if I decide to stand in a park with a flower for José Martí on the eve of the Anniversary of his death or with a sign that says the beautiful word FREEDOM, so revolutionary that word in itself, the Revolution falls," she stated.
Researcher Alina Bárbara López and Jenny Pantoja Torres, for their part, managed to reach the Parque de la Libertad in Matanzas to lay a floral offering at the feet of Martí.
Bárbara López stated in a publication that she would not stop carrying out her monthly civic protest despite the harassment from the regime, which violently detained her on April 18th. The doctors had to immobilize one of her injured hands as a result.
At the end of his post, he referred to the recent interview conducted by the Franco-Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet with the Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel, where he claimed that dissent is not repressed in Cuba.
On June 18th, I will indeed be at Havana's Central Park. I reassure my friends and people who are concerned about my safety: nothing will happen to me. I became convinced of this by reading the interview where the president was portrayed as "intelligent, cautious, and sensible" by Ramonet; a man who, according to the interviewer, stands out for "his astute analyses, his forward-looking vision, and his sound advice". Well, this epitome of virtues energetically denounced the brutality of the police in the United States with these words: "We have seen scenes of a teacher, already an elderly person, subdued, brought down, humiliated on the ground. That doesn't happen in Cuba, that doesn't happen in Cuba!"
As that exactly describes what happened to me on April 18th at the Bacunayagua police checkpoint, then I must believe that President Díaz-Canel gave explicit orders to State Security not to bother me. It's either that, or that the "independent republic of Bacunayagua" is no longer part of Cuba," he stated.
There are also reports that the regime has summoned protesters from the recent protests in Baracoa and militarized streets in Santiago de Cuba, in the face of popular dissatisfaction due to the energy crisis that is causing Cubans to experience power outages of up to 20 hours a day.
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