The CubanAmelia Calzadilla He launched a challenge this Monday: he asked users on social networks to show how the streets of Cuba dawned this May Day, sunny and empty.
"New challenge: upload photo of this sunny morningMay 1st from your corner. Cerro, 9:16 am," said Calzadilla, who became famous for her criticism of the government last year.
In his publication,many people have joined the challenge and they have shown how the streets of their cities and neighborhoods woke up. Lots of sun everywhere, few cars and almost empty streets.
Thesuspension of commemorative activities for himWorkers Day It was a measure dictated by the government under the pretext of "climatological instability" in the country. However, this Monday the sun has come out with all its might to warm the Cubans, who are retaliating with laughter and ridicule on social networks.
In 2023, in the midst of an acute energy crisis, with blackouts and a total lack of fuel, the governmentsuspended for the first time in more than six decades, for economic reasons, its massive May Day parades.
A similar suspension was not experienced even in the hardest years of the Special Period.
When announcing thecancellation of parades, the regime claimed that there was no fuel to guarantee mass gatherings, and instead small commemorative political events would be held in cities and towns.
However, this April 30, the government postponed untilCommemorative activities next Friday on International Workers' Day and attributed the measure to the supposed "meteorological instability" that had caused heavy rains in almost the entire country.
What is hidden behind these continuous suspensions of May Day activities is the impossibility of carrying out events of any kind becausethere is no fuel in Cuba.
In several provinces, governments have not sold gasoline to the population for more than a week. Thequeues for fuel They extend throughout the island and the solution will not come soon, as the government itself warned.
The Cuban rulerMiguel Diaz-Canel He said in April that his work team does not know for sure how he will overcome the current crisis.
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