Madrid. A day after taking refuge in Madrid, the prominent Cuban opponent Yunior García admitted that his departure from Cuba deals a “painful blow” to the dissent, causing “disappointment” among his followers.
But the promoter of last Monday’s demonstration, frustrated by Cuban security forces, guaranteed his return to the island “when my life and that of my wife are not in danger.”
With his characteristic youthful air, Yunior García said that Cubans cannot “continue being slaves,” but neither can they “achieve freedom at a cost so high that it includes the loss of hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives.”
“The only way to avoid both is if the international community stops looking the other way, stops ignoring what is happening in Cuba (…) We must stop seeing it with the romanticism of the 60s and we must assume in what a revolution has become, “said the 39-year-old playwright.
“He has become an abusive husband who beats his wife, he has become a Saturn who has already devoured his children and right now he is swallowing his grandchildren,” he continued, describing the regime as “brutal tyranny as is rarely seen. has seen”.
As Monday’s demonstration was banned by the government, finally frustrated by a large deployment of government security forces who believed that its organizers were seeking to provoke a regime change with the support of the United States, Yunior García announced that he would march alone on Sunday, November 14.
But that day Cuban security agents prevented him from leaving his house, cut off his landlines and mobile phones, and dozens of pro-government supporters took up positions in front of his building in Havana.
Until that day, García had not made the decision to leave, despite the fact that due to the harassment suffered by both he and his family in previous weeks, he had applied for a visa for Spain.
One day he even found two decapitated pigeons in front of his house. “If we stayed in Cuba they behead us, we have seen ourselves reflected in those two pigeons,” he said, pointing out that although the authorities had not attacked him so as not to turn him into “a symbol”, they did seek to “annul him” as a person.
“Sorry for being human”
On his abrupt departure, he said he understood the “pain” and “disappointment” generated in his followers.
“I will be able to forgive myself, perhaps for not having had the courage to turn to stone and to become a bronze statue. Perhaps to ask forgiveness for being human, for thinking about my wife and my life, and for escaping from what it would surely constitute a living death, because that is what awaited me in Cuba, “he said.
Regarding the fact that he was able to leave Cuba on a commercial flight, he estimated: “Power in Cuba is totalitarian, obviously if they had wanted to, they would have prevented me from leaving.” Spain granted him the visa to prevent him from having “problems in Cuba.”
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx