DEVELOPING: Thousands in Cuba take to the streets to demonstrate against increasing Covid-19 cases and deaths and severe economic shortages.
Thousands of Cubans took to the streets of multiple provinces around the Caribbean island this Sunday in an unusual protest in which civilians shouted slogans against the communist government such as “We want freedom” and “We are no longer afraid.”
The central Malecón of the capital, where in August of 1994 Cubans staged a historic protest against former leader Fidel Castro that was violently repressed, also saw hundreds of protesters gathered this Sunday. In Cuba, videos broadcast on social networks, which could be verified by Noticias Telemundo, show special agents known in Cuba as Black Berets, being deployed in some localities and violently detaining civilians who protested and sang peacefully.
“My mother just died. We were in isolation for four days. Four days calling the SIUM to come and look for her. Four days and the SIUM did not arrive,” said Cuban Magdiel Matos outside a hospital in Matanzas.
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