This Sunday, thousands of Cubans protested against the government., in a series of protests of unprecedented scale and scope, on the streets of two small towns, one southwest of Havana and the other near Santiago de Cuba, as evidenced by several videos posted on the Internet.
Cuban President Miguel-Díaz Canel has already reacted by asking supporters and supporters of the regime to take to the streets, ready to “fight”. Second o El Confidencial, the Cuban head of state, declared live on public television that “a battle order has been given.” “Let’s go outside, revolutionaries,” he urged.
According to Agence France Presse, protesters, mostly young people, marched through the streets of San Antonio de los Banos, a city of about 50,000 people located 35 kilometers from the Cuban capital, shouting slogans such as “Homeland and life “, the title is a scandalous song “Down with the dictatorship” and “We are not afraid”…
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On the other side of the country, in Palma Soriano (near Santiago de Cuba), hundreds of people took part in a demonstration where slogans such as “no more lies”, “unity” and “we want help,” were heard. Spanish agency EFE.
According to EFE, which cites witnesses on the spot, there was police violence in both demonstrations, which were broadcast live on various accounts of the social network Facebook. Residents of San Antonio de los Baños told EFE reporters that during the rally, the police brutally suppressed and detained some of the protesters.
Cubans who have been forced to flee to other countries fear what might happen “blood bath” and ask for international intervention. The leader of the exiles in Miami, Orlando Gutierrez, told the Agencia Efe news agency that “it is very clear what the people of Cuba want: for this regime to come to an end.”
These were the largest anti-government protests on the island since the so-called Maleconazo.when in August 1994, during a “special period”, hundreds of people took to the streets of Havana and did not leave until the arrival of then Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, Cubans have faced more serious challenges. shortage of food, medicine and other basic products, which caused strong social unrest.
These demonstrations took place on the day that Cuba recorded a new daily record for infections and deaths due to Covid-19, with 6,923 new cases in the past 24 hours., with a total of 238,491 people and 47 deaths, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 1,537.
