Cuban intellectuals are manifested in parks and squares

The protest of the 18, as is called the civic action of a group of Cuban intellectuals who manifest each month in parks and squares of their localities, will reach two years of initiated next March.

The academic Alina Bárbara López Hernández, a pioneer of the initiative, has been permanently harassed by the security of the State. The intellectual, who will soon face a trial for disobedience, carried out her demonstration in the Park of La Libertad, in the city of Matanzas, without the usual police operations be visible.

It is essential to take into account «the connotation of what I believe should be the accompaniment of an intellectual who is committed to the destinations of its people, with the destinies of the country, regardless of whether to challenge the established powers» , López Hernández told Martí News.

«The demands have been the same throughout these years, because nothing has changed: the possibility of having a constituent assembly chosen freely and democratically for the elaboration of a new constitution that changes the current situation of Cuba,» The historian recalled.

Other claims detailed by the activist are “the accompaniment to our compatriots unjustly imprisoned; Compined to the State not to disregard the enormous number of people and families who are living in extreme poverty, under dramatic conditions, especially retirees, pensioners and the elderly. ”

«Also, call for respect for freedom of expression and thought in Cuba and the plurality of political opinions, which is basic for a dignified and harmonious life,» he said.

In Havana, the state security arrested the anthropologist Jenny Pantoja, under the pretext of a fine without paying, imposed during an arbitrary house retention.

Although the former university professor had been notified that she could not leave her home and that she remained guarded by police operations, around 9 in the morning she presented himself at her home, an agent of the police sector with the aim of Move it to the Aguilera station, in Lawton, to clarify on the fine applied in November 2023.

“The debt consists of 30 pesos that are no longer 30, but 60, which were imposed on me on November 29, 2023 because, in an unfair way, the security of the State decided that I could not leave because on November 28 (a day before) was Alina Bárbara López’s trial ”, accused of the crime of disobedience.

“I told the police there that I was not going to pay it, that they could take me prey or what they understood, that this is a country without law and without a rule of law, but that I am not going to pay any Fine, ”he said.

Every 18, Pantoja, coordinator of the Pro Amnesty Committee for political prisoners in Cuba, is forced to remain within her home, under penalty of being arrested.

The protest was seconded by the researcher and editor Miryorly García and the Cuban critic of contemporary art, Jorge Gómez de Mello, in Havana; by industrial engineer Madelyn Sardiñas Padrón, in Camagüey, and activist Mabel Melo in Artemis.

The journalist and humorist Jorge Fernández was announced on his Facebook profile that he would go to the Central Park to expose his adherence to the demands of intellectuals but at the close of this work his whereabouts are unknown.