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Day “D�
By: Juan Carlos Hernandez
Independent journalist
 
To Juan Carlos Hernandez, Lizeth Bravo and Antonio Alonso, next to other activists
of Human rights of Santiago of Cuba, he prevented himself them to travel to Havana. |
Everything seemed perfect, the Cuban official radio announced that our town would pay a worthy tribute to the North American town in occasion to celebrate the 232 anniversary of its Declaration of Independence. A Gallic tribute would be celebrated at night to the 9:00, in the Auditorium of the capital theater Amadeo Roldán, with the participation of recognized musical Cuban of different generations that would give the best thing of himself.
In several provinces of the country, many were those that looked for the necessary resources laboriously, at the same time as they prepared his properties to travel to the “capital of all the Cubans�.  Some, more perhaps intensified or with better possibilities had made economic it days ahead. Nevertheless another group of men and women - although very worthy they could not participate in the finery of the Amadeo Roldán, but they were invited to celebrate the Declaration of Independence of the United States, in the residence of Mr. Michael Parmly, mission leader of the Office of interests of the United States in Cuba.
It would be the first time that near two thousand guests was together celebrating that huge day. |
 The Security of the State had informed that would not accept more invitations, according to the words of Mr. Thomas Hamm, Secretary for Political Subjects, of the Section of Interests in Havana, but even so the telephones did not stop sounding.
The Cuban Government felt the challenge, how it was possible, that in spite of the recent media campaigns through televising space denominated “round Table�, where they wanted to diminish the paper of the Cuban internal dissidence and to distort the valuable performance of the American Mission leader in Cuba, so many people would want to be between the guests?
The stellar reporter of the pro-government, unique Cuban television half of television in Cuba, presented a declaration the Ministry of Outer Relations questioning the celebrations of 4 of Julio, advancing that would be taken on the matter half-full, as of day two began the operative ones. Many activists went prisoners, to others commited themselves to them to remain in their houses, retained the identity card to them and acts of official warnings rose to them, with already the customary monitoring on the part of the authorities of the government and their acolytes, were the unique way who found to prevent to travel to the guests of the North American Mission in Havana.
In any case, in the spirit of each of those worthy Cubans, a tribute to that great nation, the management done by Mr. Parmly was to render with its presence and to remember the contribution of a group of Cuban women of Havana that with their patriotic and shared in common donations helped, at the time, to the Continental Army Commander-in-Chief, George Washington to balance its finances and soon to defeat to the “English red dress coats� in the battle of Yorkdown.
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