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Successful demonstration of the Cuban Memorial at the seat of the dictatorship


Cuban exiles display the image of the Cuban Memorial in front of the Castro guard in Washington D.C.

Washington D.C., Saturday February 25, 2006. Total success describes the event supported by the Organizing Committee of the Cuban Memorial.

The peaceful act of protest and denunciation fulfilled its main goal. Different forms of press media, television, radio, and newsprint both English and Spanish, were present where a group of Cuban activists unfolded a large placard with a gigantic panoramic photo showing more than 10,000 crosses representing victims of the Cuban dictatorship throughout the last forty-seven years. They also carried symbolic white crosses and Cuban flags.

Cuban activists Eng. César Alarcón and Ernesto Díaz (writer and ex-political prisoner) were escorted by members of the secret service and the metropolitan police during the event as they tried to hand over to the representatives of the dictatorship in Washington, the more than 10,000 documented names of victims. They had to push aside by force a group of contra-demonstrators made up mainly of homeless from the area and Latin American immigrants Communist sympathizers ordered and paid by the office of Cuban Interests in Washington as they blocked the access to the door of the embassy with the main objective to prevent its presentation.

The representatives of the Cuban regime did not respond to the call of the Cuban activists at their door, discrediting themselves before the international press that were present and could corroborate this unusual fact.

Once again it was demonstrated to the world the insensibility of the present government of Cuba and its "diplomatic body", that is equally responsible and accomplices of these murders and disappearances.

With patriotic pride the Cuban Memorial every year reminds the world of ours victims.


 
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