As thousands of protesters took to the United States Capitol, a trumpet rally took to the streets of Miami-Dade to denounce alleged fraud in last November’s election.
“For me this is a coup, not an election robbery,” said Cuban Mayda Saborit, one of the participants in a trumpet caravan that toured Miami-Dade on Wednesday, speaking at Efe the election result last November, in which Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump.
At the front of the Freedom Tower, where the first Cuban immigrants arrived after the triumph of the revolution in 1959, Saborit explained the fear he felt for the Democratic Party during Trump’s so-called “Second Victory Caravan.” .
He stressed that Democrats “indoctrinate students in schools, teach them to hate the United States flag, to hate us for their skin color,” referring to the liberal Black Lives Matter movement. ).
“I know from experience what an authoritarian regime is, from which I had to flee,” the Cuban added, while holding the banner of the Trump-Pence 2020 election campaign.
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Immigrants from various Latin American countries joined the caravan organized by Cubans by Trump from various parts of the county, which began in Doral, a neighboring city in Miami with a large Venezuelan population, to end in the neighborhood of Little Havana. .
Dressed in a mesh, a cape and a hat with the stars, stripes and colors red, blue and white of the American flag, the Ecuadorian Suzy Taylor told Efe that the idea is to “stop the theft” of the elections .
“Dives for Trump”
“We’re against fraud and we’re hoping our president will come out a winner,” stressed Taylor, who said she was part of the “Dives for Trump”. Marc Rodríguez, a Costa Rican-born American, joined the rally because he wants to “fight for this country,” to be as “free” as the Central American, and for the Republican Party, which has been very good. “.
The protest echoed another in Washington driven by President Trump himself, who remains clinging to power with the support of some Republican congressmen who oppose the election certification being held today in Congress, a procedure that had always been routine. “We will never give in, we will never give in,” Trump told the thousands of protesters gathered on the outskirts of the White House.
With warnings against the mayor of Miami, Democrat Daniela Levine Cava, whom they call “evil” and “communist,” and invocations of “martial law” to overturn past elections 3 in November, several vehicles departed from the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami to join more than a hundred who were part of the caravan.
Gathered later at the popular Cuban restaurant Versailles in Little Havana, the trumpeters shouted “no to socialism” while breaking papers with images of donkeys, in rejection of this symbol of the Democratic Party.
Since before the election, Trump has unconditionally denounced the possibility of election fraud, complaints that have had setbacks in several courts and even in the U.S. Supreme Court due to lack of evidence.
Congress is meeting today for a special joint session to confirm the Electoral College vote, which was won by Democrat Biden by 306 votes to President Trump, who won 232.
Trump, who will have to leave power in two weeks, has unsuccessfully filed several lawsuits in key states alleging that there was election fraud in the postal vote, which was used by millions of Americans because of the pandemic. .