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Miami car caravan protests US restrictions on travel to Cuba
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BY ANTHONY DUTROW
Vol. 84/No. 7
February 24, 2020
MILITANT/CHUCK GUERRA Andrés Gómez, right, leader of Alianza Martiana,
speaks before 50-car caravan wound its way through Miami’s Little Havana
Feb. 8,
calling for end to new U.S. attacks on travel to Cuba. figure
Andrés Gómez, right, leader of Alianza Martiana, speaks before 50-car
caravan wound its way through Miami’s Little Havana Feb. 8, calling for
end to new
U.S. attacks on travel to Cuba.
MILITANT/CHUCK GUERRA Andrés Gómez, right, leader of Alianza Martiana,
speaks before 50-car caravan wound its way through Miami’s Little Havana
Feb. 8,
calling for end to new U.S. attacks on travel to Cuba. figure end
MIAMI — Scores of people joined a car caravan led by the Alianza
Martiana in the Little Havana neighborhood here Feb. 8 to protest new
U.S. government
restrictions on travel to Cuba.
Washington passed new regulations in January barring all charter flights
to Cuban cities other than Havana, and curtailed flights to Cuba’s
capital. The
government last fall barred all commercial flights from the U.S. to nine
cities outside of Havana.
The caravan also denounced vandalism at the Alianza’s headquarters
during the night of Jan. 26 after it had sponsored a public meeting to
celebrate the
anniversary of the birth of Cuban independence leader José Martí. The
group defends revolutionary Cuba, calls for the U.S. government to
normalize relations
and demands an end to the U.S. economic war against Cuba’s revolution.
The attack on the group’s headquarters comes as the U.S. rulers have
stepped up their slander campaign and other efforts to make the Cuban
people pay for
support of their revolution. The new travel restrictions, which make it
harder for Cuban Americans to visit relatives still in Cuba, are part of
these
attacks.
Fifty cars kicked off the caravan festooned with Cuban flags and signs
featuring the demands of the protest. They traveled over 15 miles on SW
8th Street
— known here as Calle Ocho — with horns honking. The protest attracted
more participants as it snaked its way in disciplined formation through
the neighborhood,
doubling in size.
While Little Havana had been considered the turf of Cuban
counterrevolutionaries in Miami in the past, today it is overwhelmingly
Cuban American workers
who face the same kind of carnage as all other U.S. workers from the
crisis of capitalism.
When protest organizers arrived and began lining up the first groups of
cars, a handful of rightists tried to disrupt the caravan. The Alianza’s
marshals
refused to be provoked and, when the police showed up, the rightists fled.
Participants in the caravan included all ages, from youth to Juan
Hidalgo, a veteran Alianza member who recounts how he fought alongside
Fidel Castro in
the Sierra Maestra mountains during the Cuban Revolution when he was 16
years old.
In a press release issued after the protest, Gómez thanked all those who
helped make the caravan a step forward for the freedom to publicly
oppose the
U.S. government restrictions on travel to Cuba. Eleven different groups
had come together to build the action, including the Antonio Maceo
Brigade, the
Bolivarian Circle of Miami, Cuban American Defense League and the
Socialist Workers Party.
Anthony Dutrow is the Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S.
Congress in the 27th District in Florida.
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