SLP, Mexico.- The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) public this Tuesday that, in 2024, at least 10 actions took place in Cuba repressive every 24 hours against the civilian population.
In the recently concluded year, the regime carried out at least 3,921 repressive actions against the population; among them, 949 detentions in homes, 818 arbitrary detentions and 786 abuses against political prisoners, according to the organization’s report.
The provinces most affected by these events were Havana, Matanzas, Camagüey and Villa Clara, according to the OCDH sub-registry, which documents the abuses by political reasons on the Island.
This 2024, in addition, closed with 952 political prisoners, which demonstrate the repressive record exhibited by the regime: “the worst in the Western Hemisphere.”
“It is a permanent abuse against activists and independent journalists, but also against any citizen who criticizes the current situation of impoverishment and lack of freedom. In fact, the majority of prisoners of conscience do not belong to opposition organizations,” the OCDH denounced.
In their report, they once again warned about the serious situation suffered by many political prisoners, as evidenced by the three who died in 2024. The last of them, Manuel de Jesús Guillén, 29, received a fatal beating, as his family showed.
“The situation is critical from a humanitarian point of view, there are a considerable number of prisoners with deteriorated health, including women with gynecological problems and several young people who have attempted suicide,” he said.
The population, in response to a voracious crisis caused by government mismanagement, has exercised basic rights such as demanding access to food, water, electricity and medicine, as revealed CubaNet in one investigation about repression in the country.
He Cuban Conflict Observatory (OCC) registered this 2024 a increase 31% in protests and complaints compared to the previous year.
To the finish In 2024, OCC counted 8,443 of these signs of social discontent, a number significantly higher than the 5,749 in 2023. “The increase is not coincidental,” the organization said. “These 12 months have served to convince Cubans that they are hostages to a selfish, inefficient, arrogant and ruthless power elite.”
In December, there were a total of 760 protests and public complaints in Cuba4.05% less than the 792 in November, when the population reacted to the critical context in which the regime’s inefficiency and repression prevail. That month, there were almost 150 demonstrations “bold enough to be considered challenges to the police state.”
The new wave of protests, however, occurred mostly on social media, unlike in November, when there were dozens of physical protests triggered by the blackouts.
Related to food, inflation and agriculture, some 129 protests or complaints were made, probably driven by the launch of a crusade against crime focused on the private sector, which would have led to a reduction in supply and an increase in prices.
Protests over electric service led the Public Services category (with 122), and 82 protests, complaints or civic actions were triggered by “other social problems.” The rise in drug sales and consumption, child labor, the hardships of the elderly who live alone or in poverty and other vulnerable people, were some of the recurring themes.
