The red, white and blue colors of the Cuban flag spilled out from car windows, twisted around wooden poles in hands and flapped against a sunny sky in downtown Jacksonville as around 60 Cuban-Americans and their allies gathered to protest in solidarity on Wednesday evening with their family and friends in Cuba.
Salsa and reggaetón played from speakers installed in car trunks. Demonstrators spoke in Spanish and English to the crowd, using a mix of phrases: “Homeland and life” and “Canel! Asesino!”
It’s not the largest protest that happened in Jacksonville this week a crowd shut down the I-95 off-ramp near Atlantic Boulevard on Tuesday night; dozens gathered at the 1928 Cuban Bistro; other marches took place downtown. Cuban-Americans in the city, some born here, some who made their way from the island, have jumped at the chance to join their family and friends who are still in their homeland as they took to the streets earlier this week, part of the first major demo
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