The increase is mainly due to an increase in the Public Health category, which ended up leading with 346 entries.
LIMA, Peru – Last November ended in Cuba with a historical record of protests, complaints and civic actions, as revealed this week by the Cuban Conflict Observatory (OCC). A recent platform report account number of 1,326 in November 2025, which represents a significant increase compared to 1,249 in October, 1,121 in September, 1,023 in August and 845 in July.
The increase is fundamentally due to an increase in the Public Health category, which ended up leading all those in the OCC registry with 346 entries.
“These were manifestations of indignation and pain due to the ravages of a national arbovirus epidemic that has affected some three million Cubans and decimated the population of the Island, because the government took almost four months to pay attention to it,” the report highlights.
For its part, some 324 challenges to the police state occurred in the last month. Actions of this nature derived from both the health crisis and the lack of electricity, drinking water and food experienced by thousands of victims in the four eastern provinces devastated at the end of October by Hurricane Melissa.
The Observatory also highlighted the complaints from the prisons on the Island, highlighting the case of the political prisoner Yosvany Rosell García Casosentenced to 15 years for participating in the massive protests of July 11, 2021, and who spent 40 days on hunger strike demanding his freedom.
According to the report, the public services crisis ranked third with 138 adverse reactions, with daily blackouts lasting 20 hours in the provinces and eight on average in Havana, as well as serious problems with the water supply. But the east of the country after the hurricane was also the most explosive area, where the lack of electricity for up to 20 days generated 14 in-person protests, and the lack of drinking water caused a citizen outcry.
Likewise, the Food-Inflation-Agriculture category accumulated 128 complaints, including videos of hungry or fainting people, complaints about the reduction and delays in the subsidized basic basket and about the high prices of food in alternative markets and in dollars.
Regarding Citizen Insecurity, the OCC compiled 104 protests or complaints, including the murders of 12 Cuban men and women. victims of violence social, criminal or gender.
Also in November, repressive acts totaled 74 and targeted all sectors of society. “During the period, severe accusations, tax requests or sentences continued to be made against opponents, human rights activists or Cubans who protested in the street or on social networks,” the platform warns.
The classifications of Other Social Problems (128 protests and complaints) and Housing (88) were closely interrelated during the penultimate month of 2025.
