A year after protesters took to the streets, queues for food, public transport, fuel and medicine stoke frustration
Thousands march to Revolution Square to mark May Day, in Havana, Cuba, May 1 2022. Picture: REUTERS/CLAUDIA DAUT
More than 140,000 Cubans, from all walks of life, have left for the US since last October, US government figures show, the largest exodus from Cuba in decades. That migration, combined with a more generalised crackdown on dissent, has left in limbo the legacy — and future — of one of the boldest protest movements since the start of the Cuban revolution, analysts say.
More than a dozen dissident-leaders, in public statements or interviews with Reuters, say that is because Cuban authorities have left them with an unpalatable choice: stay quiet, get off the island, or go to jail. “They managed to inspire, to break a barrier,” Barrero said. “The Cuban government knows perfectly well that the tensions are still there, and that any little protest could explode.”
Some protest leaders, many overseas, dream of making a comeback. Arturo Lopez-Levy, a US-based Cuban political expert, said they need, however, to regain touch with the real source of anger among Cubans: the economy.Anamely Ramos, another leader of the San Isidro movement now outside Cuba, said global attention had meant the “movement expanded in a way that we ourselves could not control”.
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