{"id":211365,"date":"2019-12-27T08:52:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T13:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=211365"},"modified":"2019-12-27T09:19:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T14:19:34","slug":"cuban-animal-lovers-stage-silent-march-over-murdered-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuban-animal-lovers-stage-silent-march-over-murdered-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban animal lovers stage silent march over murdered dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of Cuban activists for animal rights staged a silent march this Wednesday protesting the violent death of a dog in the Havana municipality of Guanabacoa.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were not many, but enough to prove that animals matter, that the brutally murdered dog was not a dirty rag thrown away because it is no longer useful,\u201d activist Valia Rodr\u00edguez wrote, in a post published in the Facebook group \u201cCuba contra el maltrato animal\u201d (Cuba against animal abuse).<\/span><\/p>\n

Cuban animal lovers, who have been very active in recent times demanding the approval of an <\/span>animal protection law<\/span><\/a>, walked to the site where the dog had been buried days before, in the area of \u200b\u200bLa Hata, in Guanabacoa.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We were not many, but enough to prove that animals matter, that the brutally murdered dog was not\u2026.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Posted by <\/span>Valia Rodr\u00edguez<\/span><\/a> on <\/span>Wednesday, December 25, 2019<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The animal had been chained, dragged by a tractor and beaten by a man after he discovered it, according to him, attacking his chickens. The extreme cruelty of the punishment, which would cost the dog’s life, outraged the community of animal lovers that reacted strongly on social networks and convened the protest march this Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cuban activists blamed the Cuban authorities and their delay in enacting legislation that criminalizes events of this nature for what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEverything happened because there was no law, and it will not have consequences because there is no law. That is why we do not accept that the #LeyDeProteccionAnimalEnCuba [Animal Protection Law in Cuba] is delayed,\u201d the group Cubans in Defense of Animals (CEDA) published on Facebook, which said that \u201cthe fault is the inertia of the #MINAGRI (Ministry of Agriculture), of the @asambleanacional and #EstadoCubano.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo more days without a law, we need justice! We don’t want for the right thing to be violent and murderous,\u201d CEDA said.<\/span><\/p>\n

It lived to suffer: it was dragged by a tractor, then beaten, leaving it almost lifeless. That’s how it died\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

Posted by <\/span>CEDA \u2013 Cubanos en Defensa de los Animales<\/span><\/a> on\u00a0<\/span>Monday, December 23, 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, when reviewing what happened this Wednesday, activist Violeta Rodr\u00edguez, daughter of singer-songwriter Silvio Rodr\u00edguez, said that by paying \u201ctribute to the murdered puppy\u201d in La Hata \u201cwe are making another call to social awareness and the need in our country of an Animal Protection Law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Valia Rodr\u00edguez pointed out that \u201canimals have behind them a growing movement of sensitive people in Cuba today who no longer want or accept that abuse remain unpunished\u201d and said that \u201cthis silent march was also a declaration\u201d to demand the law.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo more postpositions. FACTS, not words,\u201d she wrote in a publication in which she tagged President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel, the newly appointed Prime Minister Manuel Marrero and Minister of Agriculture Gustavo Rodr\u00edguez.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given the growing demand of animal lovers, the Cuban government <\/span>has assured<\/span><\/a> that it is working on a legislative draft that proposes the criminalization of abuse, establishes a control and identification of pets and regulates their commercialization, which is in the \u201creview stage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Cuban activists save animals from being put to sleep<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n