CNA—On Sunday, July 11th, the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) called on Cubans to continue to pressure Cuban communist authorities to open general elections after thousands of people took the streets of major local cities to protest the unprecedented scarcity of essentials and the death rate produced by COVID-19. After months of food and medicine shortages and the collapse of hospitals due to the pandemic, thousands of Cubans took to the streets shouting "Down with the dictatorship!", "Homeland and life!", "We want vaccines!", and "we are not afraid!", in the largest demonstrations that ever occurred in more than 60 years of Communist rule. Protesters in some regions marched with the image of Our Lady of Charity, the national Marian advocate of Cuba. Powerful image: South of Havana, in Bejucal, the townspeople bring out la Virgen de la Caridad, the Patroness of Cuba, as the people shout, “Liberty! Liberty! Liberty.” #SOSCuba#VivaCubaLibre#Libertadpic.twitter.com/tgyP0AkQyq — Jose Felix Diaz (@josefelixdiaz) July 11, 2021 Eduardo Cardet Concepción, National Coordinator of the MCL, released a statement received by our sister news agency in Spanish, ACI Prensa, saying that "thousands of Cubans are in the streets today peacefully demonstrating, demanding freedom and an end to repression and misery." They are doing so, said MCL, "in order for the tyranny to end." "The MCL, as part of this people tired of oppression and injustice, is fully identified with their desires. We support our brothers and sisters of the Christian Liberation Movement and all Cubans who demonstrate peacefully, making use of this legitimate right," the statement said. The statement demands “the release of political prisoners,...
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