MIAMI (AP) -- A teary but smiling Gloria Estefan mounted the theatre at the finish of a impetus she spearheaded that drew tens of thousands of demonstrators in Miami"s Little Havana to await Cuban dissidents.
"Thank you Miami," Estefan told the throng that packaged the travel Thursday. "We are a people joined by the love for freedom. We are here with all the opposite flags. That is what this good nation allows us to do."
Shouting "Libertad! Libertad!" the marchers collected in await of the Ladies in White, a organisation of Cuban mothers and wives of 75 dissidents arrested in a 2003 supervision crackdown there. Last week, as the Ladies in White marched by Havana to symbol the anniversary of the arrests, pro-government groups surrounded them and Cuban state security agents put multiform in throttle holds.
At Thursday"s Miami demonstration, majority brought young kids and grandparents.
Estefan, a Cuban-born, Grammy endowment winning thespian and songwriter, hold up a print of the Ladies in White and dual gladiola stems, the same flowering plants the Cuban dissidents lift when marching. Beside her were alternative singers, together with Pit Bull, Willy Chirino, Natalia Jimenez and Luis Fonsi.
A small craft flew beyond towing a ensign that read, in Spanish, "Freedom for the Political Prisoners."
The impetus was peaceful, with opposite generations station together and, distinct past marches, couple of indignant shouts opposite Fidel Castro, the island nation"s longtime leader.
Cuba"s human rights jot down has drawn universe courtesy in new weeks with the genocide of anarchist craving striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo, the hospitalization of a second activist, Guillermo Farinas, and majority recently, video of the diagnosis of the Ladies in White.
"I see the rest of the universe vocalization out, I see the European Union vocalization out, people who customarily side with Fidel Castro," Estefan pronounced in allege of the demonstration. "I thought, "My God. I"m a woman. I"m Cuban. I have the event to verbalise out since of the song thing. It"s something I have to do.""
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