A large group of mainly women and children formed a human chain to block a major highway outside of Havana, Cuba, on Tuesday to protest the island’s poor living conditions.
Cubanet detailed the protesters’ reasons for trying to raise awareness through the highway shutdown on Tuesday, writing, “In the last month, protests have multiplied in Cuba due to the frequent power outages, the shortage of food and medicine, the housing situation, [and] the repression and the lack of basic rights.
act in many parts of the world, including in the U.S. The authorities did not say if they planned to arrest the protesters but did mention that they had deployed “several officials and law enforcement officials” to the scene of the demonstration, according toThe newspaper further revealed on Wednesday that Cuban authorities detained a Cuban reporter named Jose Raul Gallego who live-streamed the highway protest via his cell phone.
Cubans have long suffered from rolling blackouts directly caused by the island nation’s aging state power grid. Cuba has beeninto poverty in recent years by the corrupt hands of Havana’s communist regime, which is responsible for severe economic mismanagement and plundering of state coffers. The government’s lack of funds is demonstrated by Havana’s inability to conduct basic infrastructure repairs on the state grid that would reduce or eliminate the need for regular power outages.
These blackouts, though well established, have worsened in recent weeks, forcing Cubans to take to the streets to demand relief. The latest electricity outages have spanned nationwide, as demonstrated by anti-government protests in both eastern Santiago de Cuba and western Havana — two cities located on opposite sides of the Caribbean island — this week.
“Residents of eastern Santiago de Cuba, the nation’s second-largest city, took up the streets to protest, espousing chants against the Castro regime such as ‘
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