As thousands of protesters took over the Capitol, a Trumpist rally took to the streets of Miami-Dade to denounce an alleged fraud in last November’s election.
“For me this is a coup, not an election theft,” said Cuban Mayda Saborit, one of the participants in a Trump caravan that traveled through Miami-Dade on Wednesday, when speaking to Efe about last November’s election results. in which Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump.
In front of the Freedom Tower, where the first Cuban immigrants arrived after the triumph of the 1959 revolution, 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 flag of the United States, hate us for the color of our skin,” referring to the liberal movement Black Lives Matter (Black lives matter).
“I know from experience what an authoritarian regime is, from which I had to flee,” the Cuban added, holding the flag of the Trump-Pence 2020 election campaign.
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Immigrants from various Latin American countries joined the Cuban-organized caravan for Trump from various parts of the province, which started in Doral, a city near Miami with a large Venezuelan population, to end in the Little neighborhood. Havana.
Dressed in a mesh, cape and hat with the stars, stripes and the red, blue and white colors of the American flag, Suzy Taylor of Ecuador told Efe the idea is to stop “the theft” of the election.
“Divas for Trump”
“We are against fraud and we hope that our president will be the winner,” said Taylor, who said he was part of the “Divas for Trump.” Marcos Rodríguez, an American citizen born in Costa Rica, joined the rally because he “wants to fight for this country” so that it is as “free” as the Central American, and for the Republican Party, which “very was good “. .
The protest echoed another in Washington, promoted by President Trump himself, who remains in power with the support of some Republican congressmen who oppose the election certification taking place in Congress today, a process that has always been there. routine. “We will never give in, we will never give in,” Trump told the thousands of protesters who had gathered outside the White House.
With notices against Miami Mayor Democrat Daniela Levine Cava, calling them “ evil ” and “ communist, ” and calling “ martial law ” to annul the Nov. 3 election, Vehicles left the Freedom Tower in the downtown Miami to join more than a hundred people who were part of the caravan.
When they later met at the popular Cuban restaurant Versalles, in Little Havana, the Trumpistas shouted ‘no to socialism’ as they tore up newspapers depicting donkeys, rejecting this symbol of the Democratic Party.
Since before the election, Trump has denounced without evidence the possibility of electoral fraud, complaints that have met with setbacks in several judicial courts and even the United States Supreme Court for lack of evidence.
Congress is meeting today for an extraordinary joint session to confirm the vote of the Electoral College, which Democrat Biden won by 306 votes against President Trump, who got 232.
Trump, who is due to leave power in two weeks, has unsuccessfully filed several lawsuits in key states claiming there was electoral fraud in the postal vote used by millions of Americans because of the pandemic.