Cuban dissident, now in Spain, says struggle will go on without him


  • World
  • Thursday, 18 Nov 2021

Cuban protest leader Yunior Garcia attends a press conference after he and his wife landed at Madrid's Barajas airport on Wednesday afternoon, in Madrid, Spain, November 18. REUTERS/Juan Medina

MADRID (Reuters) -Dissident Yunior Garcia said on Thursday the protest movement he spearheaded in Cuba would carry on without him despite his leaving the communist-run island for self-exile in Spain.

Garcia said he traveled to Spain after the authorities cut his phone lines and those of his close relatives, and threatened them with reprisals if they joined protests.

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