Cuban opposition leader and former political prisoner Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet explains how the Emilia Project can finally liberate the Cuban people from the tyranny of the communist Castro dictatorship.
Via Diario Las Americas (my translation):
The Emilia Project: A very Cuban plan for the liberation from Castro-communist tyranny
The Castro-socialist revolution, on its sixty-fifth anniversary, is on its deathbed. The only thing keeping it alive for a few more days is its predatory capacity to quash freedom and human rights. Although everything in its society is in decline, its repressive and killing machine remains perfectly intact.
On the morning of January 12, 1959 (65 years ago), the socialist revolution, in an act of revenge, executed 72 people in a mass grave, some without trials, and others with rigged and non-procedural guarantees. A true human slaughter on the Loma de San Juan, Santiago, known as the Santiago de Cuba massacre.
The massacre in San Juan was so scandalous that later, revolutionaries perfected their politicized trials with more realistic appearances of impartiality, allowing them to use the death penalty by firing squad and extrajudicial killings masked as accidents, diseases, suicides, and criminal disputes. The newest tactic is a poisoned list of lies about dissidents to trap them through Interpol.
The combat order given by designated ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel to his revolutionary followers during the peaceful demonstrations on July 11, 2021 (11J), claimed the life of at least one protester and injured several others. In those days of popular protest, 23 high-ranking officers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) suspiciously died, including 15 generals, with five in the first nine days of 11J. To this day, there are a dozen extrajudicial murders resulting from the combat order.
On October 29, 2022, a civilian boat escaping from the Castro-communist tyranny was sunk by a warship of the Border Guard Troops, an organ of the Ministry of the Interior (Minint), north of Bahía Honda, Artemisa province, Cuba. The planned collision by the perpetrators resulted in seven fatalities, including three women, three men, and a child. All were unarmed and posed no threat to the military authorities. This crime is known as the Bahía Honda massacre.
In the early days of the new year 2024, the tyrant General Raúl Castro, in a speech in Santiago de Cuba, had to bolster his designated successor as the best proposal to continue the communist revolution. By publicly supporting Díaz-Canel and regime leaders, General Raúl continues to stain his hands with blood through combat orders and threats to resort to the political police (DSE), the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), and the Minint to defend and perpetuate his communist tyranny.
The Emilia Project has a clear vision of liberating the Cuban people. During the peaceful demonstrations of 11J, they publicly expressed the same criteria in the streets of the country as those embraced in the Emilianist plan: ending the Castro-communist tyranny. 11J was a method of persuasive protest, and what they seek is non-cooperation, followed by non-violent intervention, the definitive method for the disintegration of tyrannies.
In broad terms, the stages of the Emilia Project are: making the liberation project known to the people; for those who wish to sign it, the goal is to help overcome fear and identify supporters and the signatures will not go to any regime institution. These are the first and second stages. The third is to gather all actively working on the Emilia Project and create a civic humanitarian structure for the application of massive non-violent political challenge. The fourth stage is to gather all individuals or NGOs interested in discussing a strategic plan that can be implemented for the liberation of our people; the fifth stage. The sixth stage is transitioning from dictatorship to democracy in the country; see www.cubalibreconemilia.org.
The Emilia Project was founded on January 9, 2013, in honor of the first Cuban woman exiled for political reasons and embroiderer of the Cuban flag, Emilia Teurbe Tolón, and others united in the struggle for Cuba’s independence. In 2024, it turned eleven years old, and since 11J, several directors and members have been political prisoners for their participation in those protests. On this anniversary, their leaders aimed to analyze what took place during the year, improve upon it, and accelerate the change towards freedom in Cuba.
Many of these Emilianists woke up with their homes surrounded and were detained by the political police (DSE) and the national police (PNR). The meeting place was blocked with three police vehicles and several DSE agents. These injustices, using excessive police force to silence the people’s desire for freedom, were condemned by many exiles and NGOs. Congressional members, Senator Marco Rubio, and representatives Mario Díaz-Balart and Carlos Giménez offered their supportive solidarity.
The Emilianists were not intimidated by arbitrary arrests and threats of political judicialization as a weapon to persecute dissidents by the Castro-communist regime. Civic behavior was reinforced with the determination to fight for freedom, human rights, and the establishment of the Republic of Free Cuba.