One of the most notorious protests of this monday night It happened in Güines, Mayabeque. There, residents of the areas of El Reparto and Leguina took to the streets to ask for the return of the current with pots and pans and insults against the Cuban government.
At one point, protesters closed off a street and burned three dumpsters.
“Things got pretty ugly,” a local witness tells 14ymedio, who guards his identity because “you already know how they are persecuting everything right now”. He even deleted the WhatsApp video that they sent him with the images of the protest, for fear of being arrested.
“You couldn’t see almost anything, but that was shouting: ‘turn on the current, pinga’, ‘Díaz-Canel singao’ and many more barbarities,” says the man, who assures that the Police arrived with “a truck of special troops and they couldn’t get down. According to his account, a mob of people with machetes in hand was waiting for them, throwing stones and glass jars with excrement at the agents.
“Come with the sticks, we’re going to kill them here like in the time of the mambises! Shoot, singaos, shoot, there’s no fear here!”
After these troops fled, he continues, another vehicle arrived, with “kids from the Military Service dressed in civilian clothes with large sticks in their hands,” to whom the people responded: “Come with the sticks, we’re going to kill you Here as in the time of the mambises! Pull, singaos, pull, there is no fear here! “. Those contingents also “had to go.”
Another neighbor narrates that they put him on one side of the truck and he got off on the other, but that the agents “loaded with a lot of people.”
This neighbor says that there has been no light all day and warns: “If they take it off at nightfall, you will see what is going to form here. Because things are already hot.” And he is outraged at the authorities: “They have to have little left, something has to happen here now, their time has to come.”
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