The Cuban people sent a loud and forceful message to the regime: during March there were654 complaints and protests to demand food, electricity and freedom, according to the most recentreport from the Cuban Conflict Observatory (OCC).
"Heeconomic package implemented by the Cuban government this month generated deep discontent, in the face of disastrous measures that have done nothing but increase instability and rejection among the population,” the document states.
The OCC maintains that people reacted toprice increase, thepartial dollarization of the economy anddevaluation of the Cuban peso.
These problems impacted the purchasing power of the people, deteriorating their quality of life, highlights the observatory, a project of the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba.
The text indicates that the registration in March 654protests demonstrates a similar trend to February 2024, with a minimum difference of seven registered protests, but with a significant increase compared to March 2023, when 372 demonstrations were recorded, for an increase of 63.7%.
Havana remains the territory where the most demonstrations are registered, with 152 protests, and is followed by Santiago de Cuba (66); Camagüey and Holguín with 35 each; and Pinar del Río, Matanzas and Guantánamo with figures close to 30.
According to the OCC, in March complaints related to repressive acts stood out (159), followed by protests that challenged the State's repression against the people (130).
There were also 130 protests due to the critical food situation and 95 that demonstrated the worrying citizen insecurity, marked by increasing social violence and without government control.
The increasing economic difficulties in Cuba generate frustration and hopelessness in the country's economic future, "exposed in another social outbreak that multiplied automatically, like the usual violent response of the state," the organization stressed, making reference tothe protests of March 17 and 18 and the events that followed.
In its report, the OCC also highlights the work of some Cuban activists and mentions the complaint made byRosa María Payá, to demand the expulsion of the Castro regime from the UN Human Rights Council in a speech in Geneva where he denounced the entire situation that the people are experiencing today.
The observatory report also emphasizes that the government's apathy andsystem inefficiency They caused 69 demonstrations over public services, which did not satisfy the essential needs of the population, dissatisfied with the unhealthiness, the constant blackouts, the lack of medicines and the very poor public health care.
It also points out that protests linked to economic and civil rights led the record with 365, followed by 289 related to political and civil rights, which are a frank manifesto of the growing courage of citizens to express their rejection and demand their rights.
The organization warned that in March there has been a significant increase in robberies, street violence and the proliferation of criminal gangs, expressions of the economic crisis that the nation is experiencing.
At the same time, he also warned that the population perceives a lack of effective response from the authorities to security problems.
The index offemicides in Cuba has reached alarming levels, with 15 so far this year alone, which demonstrates a significant increase, the document notes.
The OCC registers as protests in-person demonstrations such as sit-ins, pot-banging and marches, graffiti and statements to independent media, comments left in official media, as well as posts, photos, videos, memes and direct transmissions on social networks, and other formats. such as drawings and musical or poetic compositions.
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