Cuban protesters who were demonstrating in Havana on the third day of a general blackout, caused by the collapse of the national electricity system (SEN), pushed back a vehicle of repressors that was entering a neighborhood with residents fed up after several consecutive days without water or electricity.
Despite the fear of being repressed, imprisoned, and silenced by the authorities, many neighborhoods in the capital witnessed neighborhood protests, whether in the form of pot-banging or outbursts of indignation in the public square.
Although people are afraid to report what happens in their communities because they may be arrested for making complaints on social media, these have captured samples of spontaneous demonstrations by neighbors in different parts of the Cuban geography.
Protected by the darkness of the night that allows them to maintain anonymity, Cubans banged their empty pots from their homes and sidewalks in municipalities like Cerro, Habana del Este, and Marianao.
Videos circulating on social media show some protests this weekend, where demonstrators are blocking streets and demanding the restoration of electric service. In some cases, there was a deployment of police forces that tried to suppress them.
This is the case of the protest that took place on Saturday in an indeterminate neighborhood of Havana, where shouts of "Down with the Dictatorship" and "Freedom" were heard.
A video shared on social media showed the moment when a car, in which supposedly regime repressors from Cuba were traveling, stopped on the street in response to the shouts of the neighbors.
Surrounded by voices coming from a deep darkness, the occupants of the vehicle decided not to move forward and sought to exit the street by backing the car up and sneaking away through a side street.
This Sunday, the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel called the Cubans who took to the streets to protest the blackouts and the collapse of the SEN during these days drunk and indecent.
He did so during his appearance at the National Defense Council (CDN), where he attended dressed in olive green and also displayed a "hard hand" and made clear threats to repress with the full weight of the totalitarian State anyone who protests.
"He already put on the killing suit"; "He put on the costume of the chief clown, but his face cannot hide it. That is the face of a mediocre person who was overwhelmed by the role," Cubans responded on social media to Díaz-Canel's threats.
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