IA nationwide protest against the government broke out in Cuba. Thousands of people took to the streets on Sunday to express their dissatisfaction with the new coronavirus policy. A witness in Santiago de Cuba said: “They protested against the crisis of no food or medicine. Everything must be purchased at a foreign exchange store, and the list is constantly increasing.”
Videos on social media showed hundreds of residents in cities ranging from Havana to Santiago chanting anti-government slogans and making various requests, including vaccines against anti-government coronavirus Until the end of the power outage every day. Vehicles of the security forces patrolled the streets with machine guns.
Communist President Miguel Diaz-Canel blamed the riots on the United States in a national television address on Sunday afternoon: The protests were orchestrated by the United States through social media platforms and “mercenaries” on the scene in Cuba. He warned that no further “provocations” will be tolerated.
In the past two years, this country led by the Communist Party has been experiencing a worsening economic crisis, and the government mainly blamed it on US sanctions and the pandemic. There is a shortage of basic necessities on the Caribbean island, and there are often long lines in front of shops. This has increased the pressure to implement long-term promised reforms that have so far been blocked. Critics accuse the government of incompetence and blame the Soviet Union’s one-party system.
