A young Cuban protested this Saturday in Havana due to the critical situation in the country and confessed to feeling “tired of continuing to fight.”
And video shared by independent media CubaNet, revealed the protest carried out alone by this young Cuban in the central Havana neighborhood of Tight.
“I am tired of continuing to fight... I have been working in Public Health for 18 years and I resigned from my profession today because I am already tired. Homeland and life, Homeland and freedom!", the young man was heard saying through tears.
The protest, which took place this Saturday on N Street, between 21 and 19, in front of the Capri Hotel cafeteria, ended with the arrival of a police patrol. National Revolutionary Police (PNR).
An agent approached the young man to ask for identification and the person recording the video did not record what happened next.
The desperation of Cubans in the face of the general crisis that the country is going through increasingly leads them to take to the streets to protest.
A total of 5,749 demonstrations of popular discontent took place in Cuba during 2023, according to a report from the Cuban Conflict Observatory (OCC).
The figure far exceeded the 3,923 protests compiled in 2022, for an increase of 32%, the report stated.
In recent days, the Cuban activist Alberto Turís Betancourt Pérez went out to protest with a poster to denounce the slums in Old Havana and the contamination of drinking water.
Shortly before, The opposition and former Cuban politician José Antonio Pompa López hung a poster on the balcony of his house, in protest of having been fired from his workplace due to his political activism.
Pompa López, a member of the independent Coalition of Cuban Self-Employed Workers (C3), assured that he was kicked out of the pizzeria where he worked by order of State Security.
In mid-December, women residents of an unhealthy shelter in Havana They demanded from the government a decent place to live.
The protesters blocked an avenue in Luyanó and denounced that the shelter where they lived had one bathroom for 14 "apartments", that there was a large garbage dump outside, and that they lived with collapsed pipes, nauseating odors and flies.
At the beginning of that month, Yudeyvis Reinoso, mother of a child under two years old, was summoned by officials and police of the regime, after having stood up in the municipal government of Marianao to demand the sale to the population of the regulated quota of milk for children and having published their complaints on social networks.
These types of claims have spread in recent times among Cuban mothers, confirming the majority presence of women among those who carry out public protests in Cuba.
Last November, a group of mothers with children suffering from serious pathologies stood in front of the Ministry of Public Health, in the heart of Havana's Vedado. The purpose of the protest was to demand greater care and quality of life for these minors. The mothers arrived at the site accompanied by their children and their medical records.
Spontaneous and isolated in current times, the protests in Cuba after the historic outbreak of 11J in Cuba, in 2021, they discovered a new energy in the Cuban civil society, who dared to demonstrate in public spaces due to blackouts, lack of water, or to express your wishes for change in Cuba.
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