A creepy video circulating on social media and a family’s will show that Cuban police raided a house and shot a man in the presence of a child, allegedly because the man was on Sunday. Participated in protests.
Recently, thousands of Cubans have been protesting Take to the streets to resist the communist dictatorship. The coronavirus outbreak and basic food shortages have plunged the country into its worst economic crisis in 30 years.
In the past few days, Cuban government officials have been trying to control the protests. According to several human rights organizations, more than 100 activists and journalists have been detained for their participation. However, this number is restricted by the government’s shutdown of Internet services and censorship of multiple online platforms.
According to the Miami Herald, Marbely Vásquez told el Nuevo Herald that police broke into her home in Cárdenas (near Havana) and shot and killed her husband Daniel Cárdenas Díaz.
In the graph video, Vazquez was holding a child and yelling at the police outside the door.
“My children are here,” she yelled in Spanish in the video, “my children, my children, my children,” she repeated. She can be heard asking: “Why are they doing this?” When the police tried to enter the house.
The video then showed that the police entered the back door with a gun and continued to shout. The video clip does not show the shooting, but blood stains can be seen on the floor.
She told the Herald that her husband had been shot at least once and was beaten. After the shooting, she said:[the agents] I entered my bedroom when I was with the children. I am very nervous. “
Vazquez said that her husband participated in the protests on Sunday, “but he did not harm anyone or did anything,” she added.
According to the Miami Herald, authorities reported that Diaz was taken to the Santa Marta police station in Varadero, where he received medical treatment for his injuries.
According to Cubalex, a US-based human rights lawyers organization, about 148 people have been arrested or missing since the beginning of the protests.
president Joe Biden A statement issued on Monday said: “We stand with the Cuban people, and they loudly call for freedom, free from the tragic control of the epidemic, and free from decades of repression and economic suffering from the Cuban authoritarian regime.”
The Cuban Foreign Minister said at a press conference on Tuesday that Cuban government officials accused the United States of organizing and funding protests or “small-scale riots.”
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