SARASOTA (WSNN) – While the people in Cuba fight for liberty, people across the nation show their support. Some are doing that right here in Sarasota.
We’ve never seen anything like it. Thousands are on the streets in Cuba fighting for their rights and their freedoms. More than 200 people here on the Suncoast are doing the same, supporting their family and friends from afar.
Protesters are crying out ‘Si Cuba esta en la calle, Sarasota tambien!’ This means ‘If Cubans are taking to the streets, so are Sarasotans.’
“We are not afraid for our lives here, but they are,” a Cuban-American living in Sarasota, Suny Roman said. “And they are paying with their life. People are dying, children are dying.”
For more than 60 years, Cubans have been repressed from their government.
“My people from Cuba and here, the exiles, are finally tired of the dictatorship, the Castro regime, and everything that they’ve done to starve our families,” Cuban-American living in Sarasota, Raymond Sanchez said. “There is no medicine, no food, my sister’s dad is dying in a hospital in a hallway. We have to stand up for them.”
From Cuba to America, people are demanding change and are seeking an end to the communist regime.
“People are risking their lives, “Cuban-American living in Sarasota, Gabriela Almaguel said. “Not only their lives, but their family’s lives, cause they’re tired of the communism. They have been able to eat. With the whole COVID thing, they’re dropping like flies, and the government doesn’t care.”
The island is facing an internet blackout.
“They shut it down so the world cannot see how they kill their people,” Roman said.
Protesters want the U.S. government to act. Sarasota Police officers were present making sure things remained peaceful.
President Biden said today that he asked the Cuban government to refrain from violence.
