Miami protesters demand intervention against Cuban government
of people attended a protest in Tropical Park on Wednesday evening in solidarity with ongoing anti-government demonstrations in Cuba. But some in South Florida said they worried the cause could lose momentum.
The Miami-Dade demonstration was organized by the Assembly for Cuban Resistance. Waving Cuban flags and shouting “Down with the dictatorship,” the protesters demanded immediate action from the international community to intervene, as widespread repression against demonHundreds strators in Cuba appeared to continue.
“It’s logical that after such brutal repression people cannot continue to be on the streets and they will have to organize in some other way,” said Andres Espinosa, one of the demonstrators at Wednesday’s rally. “And we also have to find a way to support them, so that when they decide to go back to the streets, they can have some support.”
Among the speakers at Wednesday’s demonstration at the Ronald Reagan Equestrian Center was
Kiele Alessandra Cabrera, a 23-year-old Cuban American who made headlines last month when she ran onto the field of a preOlympic baseball tournament in Palm Beach between Cuba and Venezuela.
“Cuban Americans today have a responsibility, as young people born here in Miami, to learn the realities and truths of our parents. I know because my mother and my grandmother have always fought my whole life,” said Cabrera while on a stage. “When I was 5 years old, I went to the Elian [Gonzalez] protests . ... We have to know the truth of what is happening in Cuba.”
Meanwhile in Cuba, mothers had organized on Wednesday a demonstration under the Mothers’ Movement of July 11, to demand the release of their children who have been detained or disappeared by special forces. Internet access continued to be limited, as the Cuban government continued to downplay the demonstrations that started on July 11 and portray anti-regime protesters as violent and unpatriotic.