(EFE) .- During the month of October in Cuba there were 345 public protests, 33 more than in September, reported this Monday the Cuban Conflict Observatory (OCC), an organization that reports “an uninterrupted upward curve” since September of 2020.
In its monthly report published this Monday, the entity pointed out that, “in the midst of the most brutal wave of terror unleashed by the communist state since the civil war of the 1960s,” last month on the island there were 276 protests in defense of political and civil rights, which represented 80% of the total.
OCC highlights that for the first time since a little over a year ago they began to prepare these reports, these types of protests outnumbered demonstrations for economic, social and cultural reasons, which in October totaled 69 (20%). The entity specified that in recent months both types of protests each accounted for 50%.
The observatory estimates that the preponderance of political and civil protests in October is linked to the “unjust sentences of peaceful protesters on July 11 (11J)”, in which thousands of Cubans took to the streets to protest against the Government, as well as well as the mobilization called by the Archipelago platform for a Civic March on November 15 (15N).
The OCC considers that Díaz-Canel “has further weakened his credibility, legitimacy, prestige and ability to influence inside and outside of Cuba.”
The entity opined that, before “the civic convocation of 15N”, the Government of President Miguel Díaz-Canel “has already lost” for wanting to apply “an absurd military strategy” to contain it, a strategy that includes “an obscene display of violence by presenting in social networks to paramilitary groups armed with sticks to repress those who participate in the march. “
“This has further weakened its credibility, legitimacy, prestige and ability to influence inside and outside of Cuba,” the OCC added in a statement.
The Cuban population, meanwhile, has continued to express its criticism both in the streets and on social networks, where the paramilitaries have been the target of criticism and even ridicule, the observatory detailed.
He added that the Government is afraid of “a new situation that they do not understand or know how to control,” such as “plural, horizontal organizations, without ‘leaders’, with a high level of communication capacity inside and outside the island.”
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