Havana/The shortage of water, food and basic services, especially in the rural areas of the island, starred on Saturday another popular protest against the authorities in the town of Cajima, in the Holguin municipality of Mayarí. According to social networks reports, where they were also shared Videos and imagesseveral people were arrested by the police.
“There is talk of that in all Holguin. It is said that security arrested a few and that watches so many so many,” he tells 14ymedio A resident of the city header. The information coincides with other testimonies, which ensure that, after protest, “the water immediately appeared.”
In the shared images and videos, several residents of the town are seen struggling with uniformed agents and officials in state vehicles in the middle of a road. The presence of children is also noted on the scene and the arrest is registered – it is not known for how long – some of the settlers.
Cajima is a rural community of small with less than 100 square kilometers of extension and about 4,100 inhabitants, the town is located “at the entrance of the Felton’s thermoelectric road, Lidio Ramón Pérez”.
“There is talk of that in all Holguin. It is said that security arrested a few and that watches so many so many”
In full energy crisis and shortage, and with a fierce drought hitting the island, it is the smallest and most remote communities that suffer the most of the absence of basic services. This year, several protests have been unleashed on the island where protesters have unanimously demanded current, water or food.
The early morning of June 29, the Havana municipality of Guanabacoa was the stage of a neighborhood protest that left in his path a fire and a dozen detainees. The trigger was a blackout, added to the lack of water, which pushed dozens of residents of the Barreto, Teguete and Potosí neighborhoods to go out between shouts of “Freedom!” and the noise of crashed bottles against the pavement.
In a few minutes, patrols, police dressed in civilians and riot units arrived. “The police took everyone who could,” a neighbor denounced on social networks. On that occasion Sunamis Quintero García, a young mother who, according to witnesses, did not participate directly in the protest, was arrested. “She was sitting on the portal. When she saw that the police began to shout ‘Libertad! Long live Cuba Libre!
Months before, in May, I know They reported protests In Granma, Cienfuegos, Ciego de Ávila and Santiago de Cuba. All manifestations had something in common: the most frequent claim was “we want current, we want food.”
This July, the Cuban Conflict Observatory (Occ) registered 845 protests, complaints and civic actions throughout the island, with a remarkable prevalence of the demonstrations against the regime (209 cases), exceeding for the second consecutive month the 200. The organization indicates as the main causes of this increase the serious crisis of public services and the passivity of the State before the general deterioration of the country, highlighting the controversial statements of the former minister Marta Elena Feito Feito on poverty.
In full energy crisis and shortage, and with a fierce drought hitting the island, it is the smallest and most remote communities that suffer the most of the absence of basic services
The repression was placed as the second cause of protests – the observatory includes in its registration complaints on social networks -, with 170 complaints mainly linked to political operations. The report highlights repressive actions such as the impediment to opponents of attending the celebration of July 4 at the residence of the US business manager, Mike Hammer, and the frustration of commemorative acts of the social outbreak of July 11, 2021. Abuses were also reported to political prisoners, including beatings to the opponent José Daniel Ferrer and the death on the death Yan Carlos González politician.
Prolonged blackouts, up to 30 hours in some areas, caused 138 demonstrations related to public services, says the Occ. To this were added complaints for other social problems (100 cases), including reactions to Feito’s statements, increased emigration, child labor, drug use and the helplessness of young people in military service.
Other areas that reflect the critical situation of the country include food insecurity, with 90 protests related to shortage and inflation, and an increase in violence, with 83 complaints of criminal or gender acts and a jump in the number of violent deaths. The situation of public health and housing also generated protests, with 41 and 14 cases respectively.
