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Cuba prohibits an opposition demonstration as a provocation

“The promoters and their public projections, as well as the links of some with subversive organizations or agencies financed by the US government, have the manifest intention of promoting a change in the political system in Cuba“says the response to a request to carry out that march published on the official site.

The demonstration announced in Havana, “whose organizational scheme is conceived simultaneously for other territories of the country, constitutes a provocation as part of the regime change strategy” for Cuba, adds the response that highlights the constitutional and “irrevocable” nature of the system. Cuban socialist.

The same response was given both in Havana and in the other six (out of 15) Cuban provinces. (Holguín, Cienfuegos, Pinar del Río, Las Tunas, Santa Clara and Guantánamo) where authorization had been requested for a demonstration “against violence” and for “change.”

The call for the march, launched in September, was reproduced on social networks appealing to article 56 of the new Constitution, approved in 2019, which recognizes the right to assembly, demonstration and association for lawful and peaceful purposes.

But “the exercise of people’s rights is only limited by the rights of others, collective security, general welfare, respect for public order, the Constitution and the laws,” the authority refuted.

The uncertainty about the march remains pending the decision that the opposition will take regarding the call to demonstrate.

Asked in Havana what he was going to do now that the protest was banned, the playwright Yunior García said that they are going to “consult the members of the Archipelago (an opposition group that organizes the demonstration), we are going to have a meeting” to decide the way forward.

“Always whatever the Cuban does, they will say that someone in Washington came up with it, it’s as if we don’t think, we Cubans don’t have a brain,” he reacted.

“Any sensible Cuban wants change for the better, any sensible Cuban wants there to be more democracy in Cuba, that there is more progress, that there is more freedom, in all senses, “he added.

The Cuban government, which denies the existence of political prisoners in Cuba, considers the opposition that it accuses of being financed by Washington as illegal.

Initially, the Archipelago had called for the march for November 20, but last Friday it announced that it would advance it to the 15th because the regime decided last week to declare the same day as “National Defense Day.”

The precedent of the march is in the unprecedented protests of July 11 and 12 in fifty Cuban cities, which left one dead, dozens injured and hundreds of detainees.

These spontaneous demonstrations, unprecedented since the triumph of the 1959 revolution, took place shouting “We are hungry”, “Down with the dictatorship” and “Freedom”, in the framework of a severe economic crisis, the worst in 30 years.

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