He Cuban state television program Con FiloPart of the regime’s machinery Defame and criminalize civil societydefended the right they have Artists like El Micha, or the rest of the musicians to return to the island. However, the presenter Gabriela Fernández excluded Álvarez from this list to the singer Yotuel Romero and viewed him as a threat to the country.
“Here they will have the doors open to come and go whenever they can or want, for as long as they want Their presence does not pose an explicit threat to national securityas is the case in any country with laws,” said the Con Filo host.
Fernández immediately added: “So Yotuel’s concert in Latino will have to do it through artificial intelligence“Like the rest of their neoliberal dreams for Cuba, but for the rest the vast majority of our artists can return when they see fit, without unpleasant questions or pressure, which is what Miami is for,” he added.
Fernández lamented that El Micha was recently a “victim” of what he saw as “organized repression against everyone.” Cuban public figure that expresses the slightest intention Return to Cuba”. He also mentioned the “efforts they go to to make life impossible for anyone who shows even the slightest roots in their country,” which he described as “an absurd game that benefits only those who promote it.” .
Yotuel Romero replied almost immediately on his Facebook profile: “Do any of my shows endanger Cuba’s national security? This is Patria y Vida. They are more afraid than the revolution. Officially I have They are refusing me entry into my country“.
With this Tuesday’s broadcast, the regime confirms the violation of the “right of return”, a principle of the international law contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightswhich says that a person has Right to return to your country of origin and enter it.
The island regime often uses the forced expatriation of activists, opponents and critical citizensby either forcing them to leave the country or preventing their return abroad.
Among the clearest and most recent cases of Cubans prevented from returning to Cuba by the Cuban regime There are the activists Namely Ramos, Omara Ruiz Urquiola and the journalist Carlos Manuel Álvarez.
Last Monday it turned out that… Micha is back in Cuba. From this trip, the singer published photos on the Malecón and with some of his colleagues on his social networks. In the broadcast they published a fragment of a video of it Urban singer making sure will visit Cuba whenever he wants and that he will sing on the island’s stages, even expressing his desire to go on a national tour.
In March 2021, El Micha made his support for the cause clear. for the freedom of Cuba and premiered his song: A dream. On this issue, he called for change for his country and denounced it Oppression of the Cuban regimeas well as high prices, shortages of medicines, food and lack of freedom of expression.
“The country needs a change, better days. (…) The suffering of me, let it end. The oppression, let it end. The abuse, let it end. The fear of the Cuban, let it be over,” could be heard in some lines of A Dream.