Hundreds of people took to the streets this Thursday in Havana, on the Calzada del Cerro and in some neighborhoods of the municipality of Arroyo Naranjo, to protest the current, which has been missing since the collapse of the National Electric System (SEN) after the passage of the Hurricane Ian.
“We want the light, we want the light,” the crowd chanted, clapping their hands, gathered in Cerro, between San Pablo and Auditor, as can be seen in videos broadcast on social networks. Several vehicles of the National Revolutionary Police guarded the crowd, without intervening.
A witness to the crowd, a resident of the place, assures this newspaper that a crane immediately appeared to replace a light pole that had fallen. “People have already learned that to solve problems you have to protest,” argues this source.
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In the municipality of Arroyo Naranjo, in neighborhoods such as Párraga and La Palma, protests were also registered. Several users on social networks shared videos and photos of what was happening, along with labels such as #BastaYaDeMentiras, #DiazCanelSingao and #PatriayVida.
In all the materials shared on social networks, you see many women and mothers, who are the ones who carry with them the suffering of the lack of electricity, with the elderly and children in their care.
In a photograph taken in La Palma, two huge rows of police patrols can be seen on each side of a road. “Remember: the blockade is from the PCC. There is no electricity, there is no oil, there is no food, but there are resources to repress”, posted when sharing the photo the Cuban journalist based in Mexico, José Raúl Gallego.
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