The blackouts, the shortage of water and the deterioration of basic services led the causes of social discomfort.
Madrid, Spain.- The social discomfort in Cuba reached a record this September, with 1,121 protests, complaints and civic actions throughout the country, according to the most recent report by the Cuban Observatory of Conflicts (OCC). The figure exceeds the August registration (1,023) and confirms an upward trend in the expressions of discontent citizen.
The study It specifies that 323 of the documented actions were of an answer nature, that is, direct challenges to the State. Among them include 16 physical manifestations on public roads, such as blockages of streets, cacerolazos and marches, with special incidence in locations such as Gibara, in Holguín.
Basques and water crisis, main triggers
The OCC points out that the prolonged electrical blackouts and the Current water They were at the center of claims. In September alone, 245 actions related to public services were counted, which also cover problems in the supply of gas, transport and even funeral services.
Health, food and insecurity
The report also includes 99 protests linked to public health, in a context marked by epidemiological outbreaks in 11 provinces and the shortage of medical reagents in Matanzas hospitals.
In the economic sphere, 92 complaints were reported for inflation, agriculture and food, with testimonies of families that have reduced the number of daily foods due to lack of resources.
Citizen insecurity was another axis of concern: the West documented 121 actions related to social, criminal and gender violence, with a balance of 21 deaths and 17 disappearances in the month.
Active repression
The agency also registered 152 repressive acts in September, almost double the 89 occurred in August. The document denounces that the repression reached both face -to -face demonstrations and expressions in social networks.
One of the cases cited was that of a man in Santiago de Cuba sentenced to four and a half years in prison for recording with his mobile phone a tail to buy liquefied gas.
A multidimensional crisis
The West warns that the combination of blackouts, shortages, deterioration of basic services and official repression configures a multidimensional crisis that extends through the 15 provinces of the country and the island of youth.
“The simultaneous growth in number and diversity of protests shows that social discomfort in Cuba not only persists, but deepens,” concludes the report.
