Government of Santiago de Cuba appears normal with popular music on the second night after the outbreak of 17M

Three pounds of rice, four of sugar and a musical group playing at full volume on a street in Santiago de Cuba while the city suffered a blackout: that was the provincial government's recipe to appear normal afterthe social outbreak of 17M.

“These rulers have no shame, while the people are in the streets and the police are beating them, they are pretending that nothing is happening,” he told the independent journalist.Yosmany Mayeta Labrada a woman from Santiago who denounced the hypocrisy of the authorities.

According to your publicationsocial networks, the so-called “Johnson Circus” began after the protests that on Sunday led hundreds of people to the streets to protest against food shortages, the poor management of the government ofMiguel Diaz-Canel and the massive blackouts they suffer.

After trying unsuccessfully to appease the protesters from the rooftop from a house in Reparto Veguita de Galo, the first secretary of the Communist Party in Santiago de Cuba,Beatriz Johnson Urrutia, the “blockade” was unlocked and food appeared in the city that had not previously arrived due to the “fault” of the United States.

The operation was described by a resident of Santiago de Cuba as“food for today and hunger for tomorrow”, denouncing the cosmetic and populist nature of the decision.

“While the city is off, the music in El Tívoli is apululu,” another resident in the eastern Cuban city told Mayeta Labrada. “What they have to do is bring us food, current and Freedom, we don't want more circus when there is an entire town with a broken belly,” he concluded.

According to the journalist, “although apparent calm reigns in Santiago, the spark remains lit.” However, in profiles of social networks institutional and related to the Cuban regime, photos of a quiet city proliferate, barely crossed by its inhabitants and with messages of “joy of our children” and “continuity of the pillars of our Revolution.”