{"id":1057076,"date":"2021-11-26T11:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T16:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1057076"},"modified":"2021-11-26T11:43:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T16:43:51","slug":"fidel-is-alive-cuba-marks-5-years-since-castro-death-with-mandatory-mourning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fidel-is-alive-cuba-marks-5-years-since-castro-death-with-mandatory-mourning\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Fidel Is Alive&#039;: Cuba Marks 5 Years Since Castro Death with Mandatory Mourning"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Ffidel-is-alive-cuba-marks-5-years-since-castro-death-with-mandatory-mourning%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=1057076&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--><p class=\"subheading\">The Communist Party organized multiple mass assemblies, including one apparently mimicking the practices of anti-regime protesters, throughout this week to honor the memory of dictator Fidel Castro on the five-year anniversary of his much-anticipated death.<\/p>\n<p>Hours of speeches, military assemblies, lines of \u201cmourners\u201d assembled at his tomb, and a night time candlelight vigil formed just part of the program of events organized by the Party, still controlled by the Castro family, between Tuesday and Thursday. Local independent journalists reported a marked \u201clack in popular enthusiasm\u201d over the events that the regime tried to drown out by placing megaphones on street corners blaring old Castro speeches and other propaganda.<\/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>The official newspaper of the&nbsp;Communist Party,&nbsp;<em>Granma<\/em>, falsely declared in various propaganda articles that Fidel Castro \u201cis alive\u201d and remains an obsession of Cuban youth. In reality, young Cubans, many of them minors, participated in widespread protests both on July 11 and November 15 across the island that resulted in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/07\/28\/cuba-minor-arrested-witnessing-protests-says-police-threatened-rape-her\/\">arrests<\/a> and abuse at the hands of police. While no concrete sum of minors detained for political activity in Cuba is available as the Castro regime denies keeping prisoners of conscience, the estimates from human rights groups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.periodicocubano.com\/mas-de-40-menores-cubanos-detenidos-por-participar-en-el-11j-y-15n\/\">range<\/a> in the dozens.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations children\u2019s agency UNICEF expressed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotelevisionmarti.com\/a\/unicef-se-pronuncia-sobre-menores-detenidos-en-cuba\/307719.html\">concern<\/a>\u201d over the children last week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18906458\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236807624.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18906458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236807624-1024x688-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"665\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Young people walk with posters and Cuban flags along a Havana street during the 5th anniversary of Fidel Castro\u2019s physical disappearance, on November 25, 2021. (YAMIL LAGE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Among the events held this week, the Castro regime armed forces organized a candlelight vigil attended by some of the highest-ranking members of the Party. The event, despite apparently being meant as a military homage, featured multiple dance troupes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was there,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Granma&nbsp;<\/em>reported of \u201cdream maker\u201d Fidel Castro, who is dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Fidel is alive, because he is and will continue to be the soul of the nation, and his legacy goes beyond generations currently present,\u201d an effusive&nbsp;<em>Granma<\/em> declared. \u201cIt was an homage to he who they call the eternal walker, the dream maker, my Commander.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Communist Party flooded the University of Havana with seemingly hundreds of people for another event on Tuesday night, despite the ongoing and increasingly critical Chinese coronavirus outbreak in the country. Leaders of the event forced attendees to chant \u201cI am Fidel\u201d and \u201clong live socialism,\u201d among other mottos.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fidel vive en el alma de Cuba\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FkMMnY4D_oY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday, in Castro\u2019s native Santiago de Cuba, the regime organized long lines of \u201cmourners\u201d wearing pro-communist t-shirts and other paraphernalia to lay flowers on the large boulder that serves as Castro\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cuba homenajea al l\u00edder eterno de su Revoluci\u00f3n a un lustro de su partida f\u00edsica\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l40yT89gSp8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The regime also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granma.cu\/cuba\/2021-11-26\/centro-fidel-castro-ruz-de-la-emocion-y-el-amor-26-11-2021-00-11-19\">inaugurated<\/a> the \u201cFidel Castro Ruz Center\u201d to promote worship of the late dictator on Thursday at an event Ra\u00fal Castro, Fidel\u2019s younger brother and fellow dictator, called \u201cthe most moving thing I have seen in my life.\u201d Castro claimed to have cried during a children\u2019s performance honoring Fidel at the event.<\/p>\n<p>The outsized programmed events did little to obscure the national discontent that made headlines around the world this summer after nearly 200,000 people in nearly every city on the island <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/08\/03\/study-187000-cubans-participated-protests-july\/\">took<\/a> to the streets in protest on July 11. While international coverage waned on the ongoing protest movement in Cuba following the July protests, dissidents have continued organizing assemblies and are currently in the process of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/11\/25\/gutierrez-boronat-cuba-hasnt-stopped-protesting-thanks-to-its-children-the-world-is-listening\/\">convening<\/a> a \u201cnational strike\u201d meant to prevent the Castro regime from continuing to economically exploit the Cuban people.<\/p>\n<p>The Castro regime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granma.cu\/pensar-en-qr\/2021-11-14\/por-que-el-enemigo-esta-condenado-al-fracaso-14-11-2021-22-11-26\">denounced<\/a> the November protests as the creation of \u201ca violent and interventionist right wing\u201d and \u201cpeople who work for a foreign government with the goal of setting up a coup agenda to change the political system.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Granma<\/em> presumably meant the United States to be assumed the foreign government in its accusation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Often-detained Cuban journalist Luz Escobar noted in the independent publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.14ymedio.com\/cuba\/Derroche-oficiales-Fidel-Castro-entusiasmo_0_3210878890.html\">14 y Medio<\/a> on Thursday that one of the many events the regime organized appeared to be an attempt to copy the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/11\/16\/cuba-nuns-priests-biggest-protests-july\/\">November 15<\/a> protest, in which dissidents called on civilians to peacefully take the streets wearing white and holding flowers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18906538\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236784025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18906538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236784025-1024x698-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Young people hold up posters of Cuban late leader Fidel Castro during the vigil for the 5th Anniversary of his physical disappearance in Havana, on November 24, 2021. (YAMIL LAGE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One dissident, the now-exiled \u201cartist\u201d Yunior Garc\u00eda, had attempted to wear white and walk around town holding a flower on November 14 and was allegedly prevented from doing so before fleeing to Spain (Garc\u00eda\u2019s flight did not stop dissidents, particularly members of the Catholic clergy, from marching the next day).<\/p>\n<p>Escobar reported that the \u201cWalk for Fidel\u201d was organized to take the exact same route that Garc\u00eda had announced he would take and called fo the same dress code.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother commemorative signal occurring on Thursday was the placement, in some neighborhoods of Havana, of loudspeakers at full volume with the voice of the deceased giving speeches,\u201d Escobar reported, \u201caccompanied by Silvio Rodr\u00edguez songs and all the musical repertoire that throughout the years has accompanied the official acts of the regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Communists also forced children in schools to participate in the mourning, writing \u201c#IAmFidel\u201d in chalk in playgrounds or forcing them to write essays \u201cin honor of Fidel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Escobar noted that the government efforts failed to obscure that \u201cthe streets show less enthusiasm every year to commemorate the death of the architect of the Cuban Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Communist Party organized multiple mass assemblies, including one apparently mimicking the practices of anti-regime protesters, throughout this week to honor the memory of dictator Fidel Castro on the five-year &#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-1057076","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\/1057076","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=1057076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057076\/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=1057076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}