MIAMI, United States. — Cuba closed the first semester of 2022 with 1,713 protests, according to what the Cuban Conflict Observatory (OCC) announced on Monday.
The organization indicated that so far this year “the terror unleashed by the Cuban regime has not stopped the protests on the island.” Proof of this was what happened in the month of July, when they reported 263 protestssome of them transmitted through social networks.
The Cuban Observatory of Conflicts indicates that during the past month protests were registered in the 15 provinces of the country, in addition to the Isla de la Juventud Special Municipality.
The report The OCC assures that the figures “are especially significant because in the month of July government forces were deployed throughout Cuba to prevent protests from taking place on the first anniversary of the great social explosion of July 11, 2021 (11J)” .
Of the 263 protests that occurred in July, 75 were for political and civil rights and 188 for economic and social rights.
In the case of protests for economic and social reasons, their increase compared to other months is related to electricity cuts, the collapse of the health system in the face of the growing dengue epidemic, food and medicine shortages, inflation, etc.
The OCC adds that 47 protests were the result of widespread unrest due to the numerous blackouts registered in the national territory. Of these, 20 occurred in the form of street cacerolazos.
“The 20 cacerolazos that occurred in 12 provinces in the month of July were carried out by retaking the streets at night, which were controlled by the repressive forces during the day, and parading through them, under the cover of darkness, shouting anti-government slogans,” the Observatory reported.
Likewise, the demonstrations in which the government was directly accused of mismanagement in its operation had a significant increase, from 28 in June to 85 this month.
Havana was once again the province with the highest concentration of protests (79), followed by Villa Clara (20), Camagüey (19) and Holguín (19).
The demands chanted by those who took to the streets during the blackouts mixed the demand to replenish the electricity with the cry of “Freedom”.
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