Dozens of classic cars from the 1950s paraded this Sunday along Calle Ocho in Miami, in the heart of Little Havana, with Cuban flags waving from their windows, in a caravan organized by exiles to demand an end to the Cuban dictatorship and the release of the more than a thousand political prisoners remaining incarcerated on the island.
Las imágenes de la movilización, difundidas por el perfil de Instagram @onlyindade, muestran chevrolets, oldsmobiles y automóviles antiguos convertibles, avanzando por las calles más céntricas de la ciudad.
The caravan left from the Mall de Hialeah at 10:30 am and traveled through various areas of Miami. There were simultaneous mobilizations in several cities this weekend, such as in Houston (Texas), Orlando (Florida), Louisville (Kentucky), and Cape Coral (Florida).
It was a coordinated day for the Cuban exile community in the United States, and demonstrations were also reported in Latin America.
Activists like Anamely Ramos, Camila Lobón, Karel Bysquet, and José Daniel Ferrer gathered in Miami to demand the right of exiles to return to Cuba.
The protests by the exile community are part of a cycle of mobilizations that intensified this month, following the events of March 13, when hundreds of residents in Morón, Ciego de Ávila, took to the streets to protest against power outages lasting more than 28 hours and food shortages.
Cuban protesters surrounded the headquarters of the Communist Party and set its furniture on fire in the street. The regime responded with arrests and internet outages.
On March 15, Cubans in Miami gathered in front of the Versailles Restaurant called by Ramón Saúl Sánchez, who declared: "If Cuba is in the streets, so are we."
The Cuban people in Miami have been supporting the protests on the island for several days, in solidarity with those who were demonstrating inside the country.
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