MIAMI, United States. – Around midnight this Friday, hundreds of people took to the streets of the municipality of Los Palacios, Pinar del Río. Several videos broadcast live on social networks show a crowd crossing the streets of the town in the direction of the municipal headquarters of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) while they banged pots and chanted protest slogans.
In the recordings, the protesters are heard shouting loudly “We are hungry!”, “Turn on the power!”, “Díaz-Canel singao!” and even “Down with the dictatorship!”.
Shortly after 12:30 this morning all live broadcasts originating from Los Palacios stopped, suggesting an alleged Internet connection outage by Cuba’s telecommunications monopoly, ETECSA. In similar scenarios, the company has already limited its services to prevent new sources of protest from arising.
(News in development)
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