Cuban activists protested this Thursday in front of the stand of the regime of Miguel Díaz-Canel at the Madrid Tourist Fair (Fitur), the largest of its kind in Europe.
The initiative aims to alert tourists and travel agencies not to cooperate with the Castro dictatorship by traveling to the Island or doing business with the Cuban communists. To that end, activists have worn sweaters with signs reading "Patria y Vida" and "Diaz-Canel, singao."
Representatives of the regime have attempted to intimidate the protesters, and even the Spanish police have been alerted to intervene. This was explained on X (formerly Twitter) by Cuban activist Lázaro Mireles, President of the Movement Actions for Democracy, which has over 10,000 followers on this social network.
"Patriotic brothers have been harassed today by the organized mafia of the PCC simply for wearing t-shirts that highlight the reality of Cuba under dictatorship. If you sell a lie in freedom, there is an absolute right to contextualize the public you are trying to manipulate and deceive. That’s why we say: #NoTravelToCuba. The regime’s complicit agencies, as always, have called the police in an attempt to prevent the free expression of these brave Cuban women," he wrote on X.
"We are here to denounce the Cuban dictatorship. Cuba is a failed state. We want freedom for all political prisoners. We want to tell all Spaniards not to travel to Cuba," stated one of the activists in a video shared on X, who, in her speech, called for freedom for all political prisoners.
The Cuban dictatorship, through the Ministry of Tourism, promoted its participation in Fitur on its social media, inviting people to visit its space at stand 3B09 to, in theory, "discover the magic of an Island" that to this day holds over a thousand citizens imprisoned for political reasons. Among them, Mayelín Rodriguez from Nuevitas, sentenced to 15 years in prison for recording peaceful protests in her town.
The celebration of Fitur coincides with the announcement by Miguel Díaz-Canel's dictatorship of the release of 553 Cuban political prisoners, supposedly in connection with the Jubilee 2025 and after reaching an agreement with the Vatican.
However, the releases have been halted following Donald Trump's inauguration, although organizations like Prisoners Defenders assert that two days before Trump officially took office, the regime had already stopped notifying the families of political prisoners about release announcements.
In any case, although the official reason for the release of Cuban political prisoners is the Jubilee, it is clear to everyone that Biden announced Cuba's removal from the list of state sponsors of terrorism on the same day that the release of several dozen political prisoners began. Trump revoked this Democratic order on his first day in office.
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