Beatriz Johnson Urrutia, secretary of the PCC in the province of Santiago de Cuba, assured that “as always the people understood it,” referring to the justifications he gave to hundreds of protesters this Sunday at the site where the massive protests of 17M began.
During an appearance on the official TurquinoTeVe channel, the leader admitted: “We cannot deny that it was a very tense situation", although he then tried to soften the magnitude of the protest: "But as always the people understood it, because they also saw us, the highest authorities of this province, as always, standing up to the problems."
Johnson pointed out the lack of fuel and the blackouts as the causes of popular discontent.
However, on Monday night The people of Santiago de Cuba took to the streets again, this time at Micro 9 of the José Martí Urban Center, a populous location better known as El Distrito.
To the rhythm of a conga, people chanted “I am a hedgehog” and attacked the ruler Miguel Diaz-Canel with choruses like: “There is no food, there is no power / Pin... pal president.”
In the local television video, Johnson tried to disguise the widespread popular discontent: "I can't say that there was any sign of aggression or anything like that against us, quite the contrary, the exclamations of approval when one arrives."
The reality that the official tries to hide is that The people of Santiago yelled at her “liar”, They barely let her speak and questioned her words and those of the Díaz-Canel government.
The eastern city woke up this Tuesday in the midst of an atmosphere of "revolutionary fervor", with the squares besieged by police and military, and with acts of revolutionary reaffirmation, confirmed to CyberCuba some locals.
The party leader, who In recent hours he has been the object of ridicule by Cubans, inside and outside the island, took this Tuesday a tour of the sites that have been the scene of the protests in Santiago de Cuba.
The communicator Yosmany Mayeta Labrada published in Facebook that Johnson visited El Cobre and Micro 9, in the José Martí district, and published photos of what he described as a “minimized communist intervention in the central 'la Placita' park on Santo Tomás Street, in the heart of Santiago de Cuba” .
The Castro regime responded with arrests to peaceful demonstrations carried out in Cuba since March 17.
Cubalex, a non-governmental organization that promotes human rights, denounced that there are reports of violent arrests to repress protesters and, also, of people who are in forced disappearance.
One of the protesters, who was violently arrested on the morning of March 18 in El Cobre, Santiago de Cuba, was Oriesel García. Like another young man, unidentified, resident in the same town who remains detained due to the protests.
According to Cubalex reports, Leandro Tamayo and another young man named Raúl, both from the city of Bayamo, and who participated in the demonstrations held in that eastern city, are also detained.
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