{"id":1020159,"date":"2021-11-16T15:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1020159"},"modified":"2021-11-16T15:43:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:43:51","slug":"video-protesters-in-cuba-chant-we-want-freedom-in-regime-mobs-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-protesters-in-cuba-chant-we-want-freedom-in-regime-mobs-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Protesters in Cuba Chant &#039;We Want Freedom&#039; in Regime Mob&#039;s Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvideo-protesters-in-cuba-chant-we-want-freedom-in-regime-mobs-faces%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1020159&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Cuban-Flag-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">An attempted communist \u201cact of repudiation\u201d failed in Cuba on Monday at the home of the family of&nbsp;political prisoner Andy Garc\u00eda Lorenzo, where his family took the opportunity to sing protest songs and chant in the faces of its would-be repressors.<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda, 23, is among the estimated thousands arrested on July 11, a day during which human rights groups believe nearly 200,000 people on the island took the streets to demand an end to the 62-year-old communist regime there. The Castro dictatorship responded to widespread peaceful protests with disproportionate violence, engaging in public beatings, arrests, and shootings of suspected dissidents \u2013 and even witnesses to the protests \u2013 in the aftermath of the event.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Anti-communist dissidents called for a second wave of nationwide protests on Monday, November 15, prompting the regime to organize \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2020\/11\/23\/cuba-communists-crush-peaceful-park-protest-angry-mob-attack\/\">acts of repudiation<\/a>\u201d in front of the homes of known dissident organizers. An \u201cact of repudiation\u201d is a mob attack on someone\u2019s home in which a group of thugs surrounds the location, shouts insults at the person, and often hurls garbage or other projectiles at the \u201ccounter-revolutionary\u201d in question.<\/p>\n<p>In a video from Santa Clara, Cuba, on Monday, a throng of red-shirted communists can be seen surrounding the home of Garc\u00eda\u2019s family. The family responded by organizing outside and dressing in white \u2013 the color anti-communists have adopted as a symbol against the regime and for peace \u2013 addressing the mob.<\/p>\n<p>The family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.periodicocubano.com\/acto-de-repudio-contra-la-familia-de-andy-garcia-lorenzo-detenido-en-el-11j\/\">appears<\/a> with musical instruments, chanting pro-freedom slogans and singing the anti-communist pop song \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wzMMWwO5MoY\">Queremos Libertad<\/a>\u201d (\u201cWe Want Freedom\u201d) by Cuban reggaet\u00f3n artist Jacob Forever. The lyrics include the phrase, \u201cjoin us, police officer, for freedom\u201d \u2013 an invitation to the mob to abandon their act of repudiation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The family included Garc\u00eda\u2019s young siblings and elderly grandfather, who joined the protest in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>According to local sources, Garc\u00eda\u2019s sister,&nbsp;Roxana Garc\u00eda Lorenzo, initially shared a live video in which the communist mob can be seen hurling insults and revolutionary slogans at their home. The video shows a crowd of dozens of red-shirted people waving the flag of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs), localized civilian espionage units that the Castro regime uses to suppress dissent. Acts of repudiation in front of the home in central Cuba have reportedly been ongoing since Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7924528301887\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Acto de repudio a la familia de Andy Garc\u00eda Lorenzo en Santa Clara, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/15NCuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#15NCuba<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jOzZDFnRHv\">pic.twitter.com\/jOzZDFnRHv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mario J. Pent\u00f3n (@MarioJPenton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioJPenton\/status\/1460010661958803458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The CDRs are currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/11\/04\/cubas-top-spy-freed-obama-threatens-dissidents-they-underestimate-revolution\/\">led<\/a> by&nbsp;Gerardo Hern\u00e1ndez Nordelo, a former top Cuban spy arrested for his role in the murder of four American citizens in the 1990s \u2013 freed by President Barack Obama and returning home to a hero\u2019s welcome and a top job in the regime.<\/p>\n<p>Hern\u00e1ndez called for local CDRs to intimidate and persecute known dissidents in their neighborhoods in early November in anticipation of Monday\u2019s protests.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey underestimate the revolutionary people who, despite the fact that we know we have problems, that we have to resolve them, we don\u2019t want the peace that we count on in our streets to be robbed from us,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez said at the time. \u201c[That] citizen\u2019s calm that we have enjoyed for over 60 years \u2026 we are going to defend that at the price that is necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In anticipation of Monday\u2019s protests, regime agents surrounded the homes of known dissidents and placed independent journalists under house arrest. The regime also attempted, but <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/internacional\/2021-11-14\/cuba-retira-las-credenciales-de-prensa-a-los-periodistas-de-efe-en-la-habana.html\">failed<\/a>, to expel journalists with Spain\u2019s EFE newswire service. Dissidents documented dozens of acts of harassment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cubanet.org\/cobertura-especial\/casi-50-actos-de-hostigamiento-contra-la-sociedad-civil-este-domingo-segun-cubalex\/\">including<\/a> many \u201cacts of repudiation\u201d over the weekend in an attempt to stop the protests from happening.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Protests occurred on Monday, anyway. In a significant difference from July 11, when protests appeared largely without leadership or organization, many of the peaceful marches on Monday were reportedly led by nuns and priests of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.0949367088608\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd34 Sacerdotes cat\u00f3licos caminan por el Boulevard y Prado este <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/15NCuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#15NCuba<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j9QxBgakcF\">pic.twitter.com\/j9QxBgakcF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Victor M. Due\u00f1as (@VictorDuenasCU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VictorDuenasCU\/status\/1460368923526844417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1717171717172\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Los sacerdotes, pastores y monjas catolicos han salido a las calles para acompa\u00f1ar al pueblo totalmente de blanco <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/15NCuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#15NCuba<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cuba<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QavXePyETa\">pic.twitter.com\/QavXePyETa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MDMCuba (@MDMCuba) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MDMCuba\/status\/1460377086410080267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Castro regime has severely persecuted Christians for decades. While local clergy has often stood by the counter-revolutionary movement, the Vatican has done little to confront the Castro regime, choosing engagement instead under at least three different popes.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Duniel Garc\u00eda Lorenzo is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cubanet.org\/noticias\/fiscalia-cubana-pide-siete-anos-de-carcel-andy-garcia-lorenzo\/\">facing<\/a> seven years in prison for his peaceful participation in July\u2019s protests. Among the crimes prosecutors are accusing him of are \u201cdisrespect\u201d \u2013 a catch-all used to imprison anti-communist dissidents \u2013 and \u201cpublic disorder.\u201d The dissident outlet Cubanet, citing witnesses in his family, say that prior to his arrest Garc\u00eda received a brutal beating at the hands of state security agents and did not resist or fight back. He is facing a group trial with 15 other people.<br \/>As Garc\u00eda faces a joint trial with so many other people, Cubanet noted, it is not entirely clear where his alleged crimes end and those of others begin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlong with&nbsp;Andy Garc\u00eda Lorenzo, there appear five others being processed, the majority of them young people, accused of crimes like \u2018public disorder,\u2019 \u2018disrespect,\u2019 \u2018assault,\u2019 \u2018resistance,\u2019 and \u2018sexual assault,&#8217;\u201d Cubanet reported. The regime reportedly charged others on dubious allegations of violating Chinese coronavirus sanitary protocol. The regime presented social media posts against communism, the outlet noted, as evidence for the crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda held a ten-day hunger strike in October but, ill-prepared to endure such a rigorous protest in prison, ceased the strike at the behest of friends and family, who noted that mass protests were scheduled to occur against on November 15.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups have denounced the Castro communist regime for staging mass trials and offering \u201csummary judgments\u201d sentencing peaceful protesters to years in jail. In some instances, the sentenced were not protesting at all but police arrested them for being near the vicinity of a protest on July 11. Many are believed to be minors. Human rights groups state that 85 percent of those known to be in police custody over the protests have no prior criminal record.<\/p>\n<p>Cuban Prisoners Defenders, an NGO that specializes in documenting abuses in the country against dissidents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/07\/21\/reports-cuba-sentencing-up-30-protesters-time-summary-judgments\/\">reported<\/a> evidence in late July of the Castro regime holding mass trials for as many as 30 people at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe summary \u2018trials,\u2019 with no lawyers or possible defense, are happening simultaneously in numbers of ten accused at a time, and we have even had knowledge of cases of 30 accused [processed] simultaneously,\u201d the organization&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CubanDefenders\/status\/1417755821442732038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">denounced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cuban Prisoners Defenders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/11\/05\/ngo-number-of-political-prisoners-in-cuba-up-400-in-a-year\/\">revealed<\/a> that the number of confirmed political prisoners in Cuba increased 400 percent between November 2020 and October 2021 on the back of mass persecution following July 11. The group noted that this only represented dissidents known to be in police custody \u2013 683 of them \u2013 and not the total number of political prisoners in Cuba, estimated to be in the thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Immediate estimates following July 11 suggested that the regime imprisoned and disappeared over&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/07\/14\/cuba-protests-arrested-police-target-religious-leaders\/\">5,000<\/a>&nbsp;that day. Human rights groups reported that an estimated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/08\/03\/study-187000-cubans-participated-protests-july\/\">187,000<\/a>&nbsp;people participated in nationwide peaceful protests against communism that day.<\/p>\n<p>Archipelago, a group of alleged dissidents who called for protests on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/diariodecuba.com\/derechos-humanos\/1637052543_35571.html\">issued<\/a> a statement on Tuesday asking Cubans to remain in the streets calling for an end to the regime through at least November 27.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637057945640000&amp;usg=AOvVaw06fyTpUfOqyZIJNJX-SNeb\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637057945640000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Tb5rmdjwRAyUdazFjn0TY\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attempted communist \u201cact of repudiation\u201d failed in Cuba on Monday at the home of the family of\u00a0political prisoner Andy Garc\u00eda Lorenzo, where his family took the opportunity to sing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}