Cuban exiles stage protest at Angel Castro’s birthplace in Spain on eve of public celebration of his son Fidel’s 98th birthday

From our Bureau of Gallant Quixotic Gestures with some assistance from our Bureau of Praiseworthy Detours on the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

Spanish leftists have turned the hovel in which Fidel Castro’s father was born into a museum. While that is horrific enough — imagine a similar museum created for Hitler’s father — every August, a birthday celebration is held there in honor of Fidel. Two Cuban exiles who were on a pilgrimage to the nearby shrine of Santiago de Compostela took a slight detour to stage a protest at that highly offensive museum.

The two pilgrims brought a banner with photos of Cuban political prisoners and a box containing documentation of the wealth accumulated by the Castro dynasty in Cuba and asked the museum curators to place these on display. Watch the video embedded in the article below.

Loosely translated from Marti Noticias. (contains video, click THIS LINK)

Two Cuban activists unfurled the flag representing the island’s political prisoners on Monday at the museum dedicated to Fidel Castro’s father in Láncara, a municipality in Lugo, Spain.

The Castro family’s roots are preserved in the birthplace of Ángel Castro, where a museum with informational panels describing the life of the father of the man who led Cuba into one of the world’s longest-lasting autocracies was inaugurated a year ago.

With their actions, Arianna Sierra Herrera, exiled in Brussels, Belgium, and Avana de la Torre, based in Italy, expressed their opposition to the official event scheduled for August 13th at the museum, marking the 98th anniversary of the birth of the Cuban dictator, who passed away in 2016.

“When we arrived at Ángel Castro’s house, we saw the museum was open, and inside, I was able to open the flag. I said what I feel and think. Once again, we took a step ahead, because they are going to have a celebration there, an event with many people from the dictatorship, and among their symbols, we were able to display the flag of Cuba’s situation,” Avana de la Torre told Martí Noticias.

“This year, what I did was prepare a box labeled ‘going to the donkey’s birth,’ and inside, I placed the ‘Pandora’s Box.’ Inside that box, I have documentation on all the companies owned by the Castros, all the scholarships they grant their grandchildren to study abroad, all the money they squander. I opened the box, showed some things to unmask that plague, because they are not a family,” she emphasized.

The demonstration is part of a series of activities undertaken by the two activists during their “Camino de Santiago,” the pilgrimage route that allows pilgrims to reach Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain, where the tomb of the Apostle Santiago (Saint James) is located.

Throughout their journey, the Cuban women carry the message of the fight for Cuba’s freedom and denounce the human rights violations committed by the regime, including the imprisonment of over 1,000 political prisoners.

An official delegation from Havana was received on August 12th at the City Hall of Lugo, the capital of the comarca and province of the same name, located in Galicia.