MIAMI, United States. – Cuban boxer Yordenis Ugás, world welterweight champion by the World Boxing Association, stated on his profile on the social network Instagram that the Island needs “15 days from July 11,” in reference to the historic protests that shook the country in mid-2021.
Ugás added that this “is the only way to be able to have a change and for millions who live in misery, in dishonor and without any type of hope to be able to have a change and a better, and above all dignified, life.”
The boxer shared this Monday a video of the protests that occurred the day before in the East of the Island, in which the protesters can be heard chanting “We are hungry.” “You have to be very desperate, tired and completely stubborn to go out and shout something like that,” the athlete noted.
Later he addressed his compatriots and asked to lose their fear: “Cuba is dying and its people are dying with it. And remember [que] there are no miracles. The only miracle is that the oppressed people want to seek their freedom. The dictatorship takes everything away from you. It takes away your freedom. It takes away your prosperity. It takes away your dignity. It takes away your children, siblings, and parents because they have to cross borders and risk their lives to go look for a better future. Then someday it has you too[s] that remove the fear. And then one day, a day that could be today, or tomorrow the people will get tired and will make them forever,” he wrote.
In another publication he opined that 65 years of the Cuban regime in power are “enough.” It can be today, tomorrow or the day after (…). Any day that ends. Change and the fight for that change are inevitable.”
The boxer also referred to the harsh crisis that Cubans are going through and regretted that they were living “a nightmare, without dreams, without hope, with blackouts, without freedoms.”
“It is instead of living, surviving each day. It is not possible to live without rebelling in the face of so much humiliation and indignation. They go [a] to be left without jail for so many people who are going to rebel against you,” he concluded.
It is not the first time that Ugás has spoken out against the Cuban regime and supports the island’s protesters. In October 2022 he assured that the people of the largest of the Antilles had in their hands the possibility of freeing themselves from the Castro regime.
“If the Cuban people decide, their freedom is closer than ever. “This dictatorship without morals will only exist as long as the people want,” the boxer said on social networks after attending a demonstration held on 8th Street in Miami.
Dozens of Bayamese also marched through various arteries of the city on Sunday afternoon after the demonstration that took place in Santiago de Cuba, and energetically shouted “Freedom!” and “Down with the dictatorship!”
For its part, in Santa Marta, a town in Matanzas located right at the entrance to Varadero, a live broadcast showed how the residents of the place paraded along the main road in the dark, to the rhythm of a loud playing of cauldrons.
On Monday night, a new protest broke out in the “José Martí” District of Santiago de Cuba. In the same province where the first demonstrations occurred last Sunday, Cubans took to the streets again after long days of blackouts.
To shouts of “Hey, I’m a hedgehog” and “There’s no food, there’s no power. Pinga pa’l president”, the people of Santiago expressed their boredom in the midst of a crisis that keeps the people suffocated.
According to journalists and independent media, after the protest broke out there was a strong police presence. Several people would have been arrested along with a new interruption of the internet service to prevent the spread of the protest.
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2024-03-20 22:25:17
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