Cuban regime expects protests in summer and blames the United States

Espera of El Ministerio del Interior (Minint). protests in Cuba this summer and blames the United States government, and politicians in that country, for inciting public disorder on the island in the midst of the current crisis.

"The United States is launching new attempts to 'warm up' the streets during the summer, taking advantage of the complex situation that the country is experiencing, according to the most recent interests of its intelligence agencies to generate attacks against Cuba, in what they call Operation 11.7. 24", said the Minint on the social network X.

These statements are based on reports from State Security, for the program Reasons for Cuba, about an alleged meeting at the home of lawyer Marcel Felipe, president of the Inspire America Foundation, where "recent interests of northern intelligence agencies to generate attacks against Cuba" were "addressed."

The Minint considers that the alleged attacks "have a prioritized objective of the national electro-energy system, due to its impact on people's quality of life."

These accusations from the Ministry of the Interior attempt to hold the US government responsible for the blackouts that will likely affect Cubans this summer, despite the fact that this situation has been occurring for years, due to breakages in thermoelectric plants and fuel shortages in the country.

The Minint also insists that the Washington government has the "objective of generating sabotage and reinforcing the destabilizing communication offensive" and they assure that to do so they have even tripled their budget, with the "decisive action of Senator Marco Rubio."

The Cuban state agency insists that the United States is already planning "the recruitment of criminals to commit acts of terrorism" this summer in Cuba.

They warn that there is another alleged front open, affecting relations between Cuba and Russia. "They will do so by presenting collaboration as a way for the Eurasian country to obtain soldiers from the Greater Antilles," he says. Cubadebate.

State Security in Cuba also accuses the United States of trying to slow down, with international sanctions, the shipment of fuel and food from Moscow to Havana.

As if that were not enough, they assure that there are "quarrels within the counterrevolutionary Cuba Primero" and that they are related to the preparation of terrorist actions against the government on the island.

In the last stage there have been three great moments of protests in Cuba. The most shocking occurred on July 11, 2021, in the midst of the economic crisis and the major blackouts that affected the country after the coronavirus pandemic.

Thousands of Cubans were imprisoned and are still serving sentences in prison on the island for expressing their disagreement with the management of the regime and demanding freedom.

In September 2022, there were several protests related to blackouts in Cuba, due to lack of fuel in the country and the poor technical state of thermoelectric plants.

This lack of electrical service destroys people's quality of life and leads them to states of desperation in the midst of an increasingly hostile social and economic context, a product of the regime's erroneous economic policies.

Recently there have also been protests in Santiago de Cuba, Bayamo and Cárdenas. People took to the streets to ask for food, electrical service and the end of communism.

The regime promised an extra amount of rice and sugar that they sold to the population and they managed to temporarily calm the protesters.

In Cuba, basic foods such as bread, eggs, sugar and rice are extremely expensive products for people. Poverty, hunger and shortages grow while State Security tries to blame the management problems in the country on the United States and the regime's opponents.