Residents of the El Caney neighborhood, located on the outskirts of Santiago de Cuba, painted anti-government slogans on several walls in the area amid the severe systemic crisis affecting them.
Although the regime tried to cover up the posters early in the morning, local reporter Yosmany Mayeta captured images of the protests demanding an end to the dictatorship and criticizing the terrible living conditions that the people of Santiago endure daily.
"Down with the dictatorship," "Díaz-Canel, you bastard," and "No more blackouts" were some of the phrases that adorned the façades of several homes.
According to the posted images, regime authorities erased the graffiti at dawn as part of their efforts to silence any form of dissent.
Residents of that locality mentioned in the post comments that they are tired of the misery, power outages of up to 20 hours, food shortages, inflation, not to mention the crisis in drinking water and the proliferation of dumps throughout the province.
The lack of responses from the government, along with the imposition of restrictions on freedom of expression, continues to fuel public discontent.
In recent weeks, similar protests have been reported in various parts of the country, where the population is calling for a change in government policies and a solution to the structural issues affecting the nation.
The Cuban regime, for its part, maintains strict control over the media and social networks, limiting the citizens' ability to organize and express their grievances.
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