Reports on social networks indicate that on the night of this Wednesday, August 17, Cubans residing in areas of the head municipalities ofMatanzas, Villa Clara, Guantanamo and in the municipality of San Antonio de los Baños, inSagebrush, staged a new day of cacerolazos in protest of the unbearable and increasingly prolongedblackouts.
"A few minutes ago a pot-bang was reported in the Frank País neighborhood of Matanzas. They shouted Días-Canel sing...", said activist Adrián González García on Twitter, who has been reporting several similar incidents in recent days.
"San Antonio de los Baños boiling. San Antonio, the part of Palenque, in the distance what you see are patrols. They tell me that they did not dare to enter", added the same source along with a short video in which the noise of pots and pans can be heard in the midst of immense darkness and some lights in the distance, presumably from the patrols reviewed by the activist.
"Cacerolazo to the south of the city of Guantánamo. Snitches threaten to call the police, they say from the scene", the Internet user identified as "Woody Alguacil Cubano" reported on Facebook.
A video published on social networks shows how in Santa Clara, in the middle of a blackout, Cubans in a home began to listen to the song "Patria y Vida", another form of protest in the midst of the circumstances.
In the case of Santa Clara, reports on social networks assure thatThe blackout was in almost the entire main municipality.
The previous day,On Tuesday, protests were documented in areas of Manzanillo (inGranma) and San Antonio de los Baños, El Mariel and Güira de Melena (inSagebrush).
The independent organization Justicia 11J indicated thatMore than 50 people have been arrested since June for demonstrating against the blackouts.
In a television appearance in June,Miguel Diaz-Canel He admitted being aware of the climate of growing popular discontent due to frequent blackouts, and stated that the government hoped to control the situation during the summer.
A few weeks after these statements and in the midst of the worsening of the situation and the local outbreak of some citizen protests, at the end of JulyThe president asked Cubans not to protest the lack of electricity, ensuring that doing so would be responding to alleged destabilizing plans against the government.
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