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The journalist and popular communicator Yuliet Teresa Villares Parejo stated this Saturday that the protests that took place in Morón last night and early morning mark a significant change in the dynamics of social discontent in Cuba.
According to the analysis published on their Facebook profile, what happened in the city of Avila cannot be reduced to an isolated incident or a specific group of residents.
Villares questioned the attempts to portray the protest as an event confined to the El Vaquerito neighborhood and warned that the discontent extends across large areas of the country.
Reducing it to one place is refusing to see the map of the deep Cuba that is being stirred, emphasized the communicator.
The also communication coordinator of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center, based in Havana, emphasized that the slogans heard in the videos circulated on social media — "freedom," "current," "food," and "light" — reflect basic demands related to the daily survival of the population.
In his view, these expressions reflect an accumulated social crisis amidst prolonged blackouts, food shortages, and a deterioration of living conditions.
One of the central points of his reflection is the incursion of protesters into the municipal headquarters of the Communist Party, where, according to reports, there were material damages and the burning of furniture in the public street.
For Villares, this fact represents a shift in the phase of social protest. “We have moved from protest in public spaces to the occupation and destruction of the space of power,” he stated.
From her perspective, the act holds a strong symbolic character because it implies that a segment of the population is no longer content to manifest in the streets, but is directing its action straight against the institutions it identifies as responsible for the crisis.
In your text, describe that moment as the breaking of a political and social barrier.
The author also warns that the erosion of trust between citizens and state institutions has diminished the possibilities for dialogue.
According to their assessment, when the State is perceived as distant or unable to respond to everyday distress, outrage finds expression in forms of direct action.
The protests in Morón took place amid rising social tension caused by prolonged blackouts, food shortages, and a widespread deterioration of living conditions in the country.
According to the official newspaper Invasor, the demonstration began with a group of people who walked through several streets of the municipality, raising concerns mainly about the energy crisis and access to food.
The state media reported that the event subsequently led to "vandalistic acts" against the headquarters of the Municipal Committee of the PCC, where a small group allegedly threw stones at the entrance of the building and sparked a fire with reception furniture.
The official version also reported five people detained and one injured person transferred to the Roberto Rodríguez General Hospital. However, the names of those arrested and details about possible charges were not provided.
While the state media insists on portraying the events as disturbances led by a small group of individuals, numerous videos shared on social media show people banging pots and pans, chanting "Freedom!" and groups of neighbors mobilizing through various streets of the city.
At the same time, profiles linked to government institutions have disseminated recordings of empty streets in the early morning in an attempt to convey an image of normalcy in the municipality, a common strategy of the propaganda apparatus to downplay the impact of the protests.
In contrast, the images circulating on the internet document citizen protests, clashes, and the presence of a young man who was transported by motorcycle to receive medical attention, amidst allegations of repression.
In this context, the analysis published by Villares concludes that what happened in Morón is a sign of an exhausted country and a deepening social conflict.
In his opinion, if a political response capable of listening to and processing citizen outrage is not produced, the deterioration of the social fabric could worsen even further.
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