MIAMI, United States.- After the Cuban regime gradually reestablished the internet connection, which it blocked this Friday, September 30 at night, videos of the chaos that took place in Havana have been emerging.
CubaNet journalist Camila Acosta toured several Havana municipalities and was able to obtain images of the situation in the capital. Blocked streets, branches on the ground, barricades, Cubans in the streets demanding an end to a blackout that has caused the little food they have for their children to go to waste, the Plaza de la Revolución militarized, and State Security agents State in every corner.
“They haven’t just given us a solution and we’ve been without electricity for four days,” said one of the women guarding a barricade at the Latino Popular Council in Havana.
“Food from all over the world has been spoiled, the children here are eating what is in the newspaper, what we can find for them,” he said.
The barricade was put up by the neighbors to peacefully protest the situation they are experiencing, “the delegate came, but they did not give us an answer,” he added, and the police also arrived but “told us that we had to wait.”
“It’s tooth, tooth and tooth, and things go bad, everything is wrong here,” said a man who accompanied them. “No one has come here, and whoever has come is to say that the light comes tomorrow, it’s always tomorrow,” he added.
“I do not want violence, I want to speak and express myself, in a good way. I was blocked by Facebook for a direct one, for saying what I think. I have a two year old with fever and asthma four days ago. And my food spoils and no one comes to give me an answer, so I look for the answer. There is no answer, I am not going to remove it (the barricade),” said another of those present.
Cuba’s telecommunications monopoly, ETECSA, cut internet in the country this Friday, for the second consecutive night, after dozens of Cubans in different neighborhoods of the capital came out to demonstrate for the blackout that has left the country in the dark since Monday.
“Confirmed: Real-time network data shows internet cut in #Cuba for the second consecutive night; the metrics show a collapse in connectivity after 8 p.m. local time amid protests over poor conditions and power outages aggravated by Hurricane Ian #CubaPaLaCalle,” the NetBlocks platform published shortly after 8 p.m.
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