In a phone conversation with The Daily Signal, Armando Ibarra, a 30-year-old Cuban-American born in Miami who participated in the Florida rally, confirmed the arrests in Havana
Cuban Government Arrests Activists in Effort to Stop ‘Freedom’ Rally
By Heritage Foundation Josh Siegel——Bio and Archives--December 31, 2014
Cuban authorities arrested several dissidents and activists in an apparent attempt to prevent them from attending a planned rally in Havana’s Revolution Square organized by a movement that calls itself #YoTambienExijo or #IAlsoDemand.
At the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami, several Cuban exile groups carried out a simultaneous rally that went on without problems.
The parallel events were meant to provide a forum for Cubans and Cuban-Americans to express their feelings about the future of the island in the aftermath of the agreement between President Raúl Castro and President Obama to normalize relations.
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