State Security Forces and the Police unleashed the persecution of participants in the peaceful protests against the blackouts in Nuevitas, Camagüey, which occurred last Thursday and Friday.
A video sent to the editorial office of CyberCuba and equally shared on Facebook shows a young man asking for help after being summoned by the repressive forces. His name is Fray Claro Valladares and he asks the people of Nuevite for support in the face of institutional harassment.
“We are at home, here, and everyone is leaving for the police. The police came looking for me, Security. Yesterday I fought for the town and I threw myself for the town. Now you support me. Let everyone go down to the police. Please share this. Security came to look for me here in a pile of motorcycles,” he pleaded.
Another user also reported harassment by uniformed officers, in this case, from the Technical Investigation Department (DTI). “Two women from the DTI have just come to summon me to State Security”, he warned. The young woman had filmed police violence against protesters during the protest.
His camera also captured the beating of minors -one of them barely 11 years old - by the police, asking them to stop with shouts of "those are children."
On Twitter, another Internet user showed images of an arrest in the middle of the street in what appears to be the day after the march in which phrases were also launched against the government, President Miguel Diaz Canel and demanding Freedom.
“The reprisal against the town of Nuevitas begins. Last night the representatives of the misgovernment in Cuba trembled with the massive demonstration carried out by children, young people and older adults in the coastal municipality of Camagüey”, warned Twitter user Isabel Soto Mayedo who addressed the Cuban government representative.
“Diaz-Canel: repressing is not a solution,” he added.
Soto noted that, despite the fuel deficit in Cuba, police patrols “and troops of all kinds appeared this Friday on every corner” of the Camagüey municipality. “That is repression of peaceful protest,” he stated.
"Several cars with black berets and police have just entered the municipality of Nuevitas, Camagüey; a repressive force for a people that only asks for freedom, homeland and life"said another Internet user on Facebook.
Likewise, the government mobilized workers in tourist buses to respond to the protest in Nuevitas and organized a act of repudiation in the style of the 80s. All to give a false image of support for the regime.
On Thursday night, Cubans staged a peaceful demonstration in the Pastelillo neighborhood of the Nuevitas municipality, in Camagüey, under the light of the moon and to the rhythm of a conga.
In addition to demanding that the electricity be restored with the already popular "Ponga la current pinga", the Nueviteros took to the streets shouting "Freedom", "Díaz-Canel, Singao, the people are planted", "Free the political prisoners" and, in the middle of the demonstration, they sang the national anthem.
During the second night of protests in Nuevitas, the police repression was broadcast live on social networks. Reports indicate that the altercations occurred around two in the morning, Cuban time, but the demonstration began on the night of August 19.
The day before, the protesters had warned the authorities that if they cut off the electricity again, they would take to the streets again, only this time the regime had already deployed its repressive arsenal that had no qualms about attacking 11-year-old girls. .
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