Silvio Rodríguez volunteers to defend Cuba from a US attack and receives his own rifle: “I demand my AKM”

In a solemn ceremony led by the president Miguel Diaz-Canelthe Cuban Government responded to the request of the author of “Holy”, who had used his personal blog to request the weapon.

“I demand my AKM, if they launch. And let it be known that I mean this very seriously.“wrote the 79-year-old musician on his blog Second Cita, in reference to the emblematic Soviet assault rifle.

“In fair recognition of his patriotic willingness to take up arms to defend the homeland against any aggression from the US government, the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces awarded the singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez a replica of the AKM rifle,” wrote the Presidency of Cuba in their networks.

Despite being only symbolic, the Presidency added that, “jointly”, it obtained “an AKM combat rifle.”

The delivery ceremony took place during the National Defense Daya day in which a military and civil exercise is carried out to prepare the people and the Armed Forces against possible external aggression.

For Cuba, handing over weapons to a 79-year-old civilian without any type of military training in the event of a US invasion is a “response to its noble and revolutionary demand.

The authorities did not clarify whether these weapons can be used against the protests that are beginning to shake the island in the face of the serious crisis it is suffering.

Food shortages, prolonged blackouts and deteriorating living conditions have led some citizens to express their discontent in an increasingly visible way, according to the newspaper. The New York Times.

In recent months there have been protests and acts of defiance that reflect the level of frustration accumulated among the population.

One of the most striking episodes occurred on Friday of last week in the city ​​of morónwhere a group of people broke into a local headquarters of the Cuban Communist Party, took furniture out onto the street and burned it.

This incident took place after several days of prolonged blackouts that left large areas of the municipality without electricity. These problems have intensified since Maduro’s capture and the cutting of crude oil traffic that Venezuela sent to Cuba.

The entry of these protesters into the headquarters of the Communist Party, the country’s only party, represents an increase in the intensity of these protests, attacking one of the symbols of power of the dictatorship.