Cubans chant "Yo me erizo" to the rhythm of a conga during a new protest in Santiago de Cuba

Santiago de Cuba continues to revolt and its population took to the streets again this March 18to protest against blackouts, hunger and the inability of the regime to solve a widespread crisis that threatens to lead to a social outbreak with unpredictable consequences.

This Monday, while the eastern city suffered a newblackout, hundreds of residents marched through the streets to the rhythm of a conga, chanting against the rulerMiguel Diaz-Canel, and other more sarcastic choruses like that of“I bristle”, inspired by a phrase from the propaganda machinery of the totalitarian regime that the population "got into."

“Hey, I get a hedgehog,” “There is no food, there is no power / Pinga pal Presidente,” were two of the choruses that accompanied a conga that toured the José Martí district, and that was recorded on video in complete darkness and shared through the NGO's social networksCubalex.

“Santiago de Cuba unlocked a new slogan… “Pinga pa el Presidente” and “Yo me erizo” resounded last night during a massive protest in the José Martí District,” said the Cuban activist.Magdiel Jorge Castro, sharing the video of the protest on X.

Although Díaz-Canel declared the protests in Cuba liquidated this Monday, Santiago de Cuba keeps the focus of popular discontent alive."They were left wanting", the first secretary of theCommunist Party of Cuba (PCC).

Neither the three pounds of rice, nor the four pounds of sugar That promisedBeatriz Johnson Urrutia, highest authority of the PCC in the province, have returned tranquility to the streets of Santiago after the protests that broke out on Sunday, March 17 (17M).

"The spark of discontent continues to burn," he said in hissocial networks the Cuban independent journalistYosmany Mayeta Labrada, sharing images of the protests after 17M in Santiago de Cuba.

According to him, "some residents of Micro 9 in the José Martí District took to the streets to show their discontent over the constant blackouts."

"The place of the protest in this neighborhood is the Sodito (cafeteria), next to the Gas point," said Mayeta Labrada, indicating that the site is close to a police station, which is why "black berets and police have arrived to control the protest."

The protests in Santiago de Cuba They began on Sunday afternoon, in the Reparto Veguita de Galo. Subsequently, the riotsThey extended to the town of El Cobre, where the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Charity, Patroness of Cuba, is located.

Other centers of protest were located in the town ofSanta Marta, in Cárdenas, and in the city ofBayamo, in the province of Granma. In addition to the supply of electricity and food, Cubans took to the streets shouting"Freedom" and"Down with communism".