This Tuesday, a group of residents closed the iconic Paseo del Prado in Havana, where they placed furniture and water tanks as a barricade and They protested by ringing pots, in the midst of a strong presence of uniformed men and civilian repressors.
“Yes, there was a protest in Prado,” he indicated in Facebook the cuban activist Adelth Bonne Gamboa, confirming information that was initially circulated on social networks amid the disbelief and surprise of many users.
A video shared on social networks showed a group of local residents with their furniture on the street and blocking the way for vehicles on Paseo del Prado. The protesters banged their pots and pans in a protest for which, at the time of writing, the reasons for this were unknown.
“This image was taken in the area just 5 minutes ago, where the street closure occurred by a group of people, who tell me are residents of the same block, blocking one of the streets of the famous Paseo del Prado in Havana with their belongings and ringing cauldrons,” explained Bonne Gamboa.
In his publication, the activist made reference to a “strong police presence and plainclothes State Security agents” in the area, as can be seen in the video.
“Highlight that this occurs in one of the most central areas of the capital,” stressed Bonne Gamboa, specifying that the protest took place in Prado and Virtudes.
An hour after his publication corroborating the facts, the activist reported that his phone's internet connection was beginning to fail.
“I am making this post because I feel a bad energy in the environment… and I have a feeling that the internet blackout will catch me on the road. “If [something] happens to me, I hold the CUBAN DICTATORSHIP responsible… Reporting is not a crime,” he said.
The internet cuts are part of the regime's strategy to silence the appearance of pockets of protests in Cuba as soon as possible, as has been demonstrated on multiple occasions after the social outbreak of July 11, 2021.
One of the most significant episodes of this State Security tactic, in collusion with ETECSA - the state company controlled by the regime that monopolizes communications in Cuba - occurred in October 2022, when hundreds of Havana residents took to the streets. for protest blackouts and the inefficiency of the authorities to solve the collapse of the national electrical system.
At the end of last April, the Cuban priest Alberto Reyes, parish priest of Esmeralda, Camagüey, assured that another protest like the historic one of 11J is just around the corner, because “people are fed up.”
After almost two years of the massive marches of July 11, 2021, others of that magnitude "are just around the corner," he predicted to the agency. WHICH a thorough connoisseur of the "Cuba parish" and a lucid commentator on Cuban reality.
Just three days before, a sign with the phrase "NO TO THE PCC" dawn written in the Humboldt 7 building, in Havana. The action was claimed by El Nuevo Directorio (END), a peaceful movement against the Cuban regime that has declared itself the author of the latest graffiti that has appeared in the Cuban capital.
After the arrest of the writer Jorge Fernandez Era At the beginning of April, the Cuban historian Alina Bárbara López Hernández was incited by government authorities, the party and State Security officials so that he would not demonstrate peacefully in Matanzas.
Citizen participation, food and public health are at the center of Cubans' discontent with the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel and moved the will of hundreds of Cubans who in March staged more than 300 protests in the country, according to the Observatory Cuban Conflict Council (OCC) in its Report monthly on protest demonstrations in Cuba.
Hunger was one of the biggest triggers for the protests that month, along with the refusal of civil society to participate in the elections of last March 26, evidenced in a campaign for abstention promoted by Cuban activists.
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