Successful demonstration
of the Cuban Memorial at the seat of the
dictatorship
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. Cesar Alarcón and Ernesto
Diaz (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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