(EFE).- The Cuban Conflict Observatory (OCC), which prepares monthly reports on the conflict on the island, registered 370 public protests last April, a month in which the serious shortage of gasoline “forced to suspend” the government parade May Day.
According to a report released this Monday by the OCC, the fuel crisis “added to the string of calamities that daily life in Cuba has become.”
The report by the OCC, an autonomous project of Cuban civil society supported by the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, says that the protests in April are “minimally” less than the 372 registered in March of this year.
In April, he details, protests related to economic and social rights predominated (216, representing 58.4% of the total), while 154 (41.6%) were claims on civil and political rights.
The 370 protests recorded last April represent an increase of 25.94% compared to those registered in the same month in 2022.
The 370 “rebellious demonstrations” in April in Cuba included “from stark posts, memes and videos posted on social networks even painted and in-person protests in parks and other public places,” says the OCC.
As the report recalls, the shortage of gasoline on the island affected public and private transportation, caused “kilometric queues” at gas stations, turned normally crowded places in the cities into “deserts,” and forced the paralysis of classes and work activities.
In the words of this Miami-based NGO, “for the first time in decades” the fuel shortage forced the government to suspend the traditional May Day parade.
“The impact on transportation awoke, in the Cubans who lived through it, dark memories of the Special Period (economic crisis) of the 1990s, when the majority had to travel on foot or by bicycle,” the report said.
The 370 protests recorded last April represent an increase of 25.94% compared to those registered in the same month in 2022, when 293 were documented, he highlighted.
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