The Cuban Conflict Observatory reported that the challenges to the police state led all other categories of their registration.
Arequipa, Peru – The Cuban Observatory of Conflicts (OCC) accounted for during the recent month of July 2025 about 845 protests, complaints and civic actions in Cuba.
Through A reportthe West reported that last month the challenges to the police state led all other categories of the registration with 209, exceeding the 200th mark for the second consecutive occasion (283 in June).
The organization identifies as main triggers the crisis of public services and inertia or inertia of the Cuban regime before the desperate crisis of the country, reflected in the words of the former minister of work, Marta Elena Feito, who said that in Cuba there are no beggars, but people disguised as beggars looking for an easy life.
“The repression, second in the July registry of the West, caused 170 protests and complaints, concentrated on the operations of the Political Police,” says the report.
In that sense, the OCC mentioned the actions of Castroism to prevent assistance on July 4 to the celebration of the United States Independence by opponents, activists and other members of civil society, in the residence of the Business Manager Mike Hammer; as well as repression to frustrate the commemoration of the popular survey of July 11 and 12, 2021.
The registered events also include the seven beating in the Verde Mar prison against the opposition leader José Daniel Ferrer and the death after 40 days on hunger strike of the political prisoner Yan Carlos González González in the prison the slope.
The expressions of citizen nonconformity on the island persisted in July because of the energy chrysi. “The 138 manifestations of anger for public services compiled in the month were based on daily electrical blackouts of up to 30 hours in some parts of the country, while in large cities they were 20 and more, and from 10 to 15 in Havana,” says the organization.
For its part, the most recurring theme between the 100 entries in the category “Other social problems” was the wave of complaints before Feito’s statements. Also, the leaks of the crisis through emigration; the helplessness of recruits in military service; child labor; The drug problem; inter alia.
The “Food, Inflation, Agriculture” classification was fifth in July, with 90 entries that respond to food shortage and food insecurity.
“In the Citizen Insecurity column, 83 complaints were registered in the month. The balance of dead for social, criminal, police or gender violence increased significantly, from 12 in June to 19 in July,” adds the report.
The Bitácora de la Occo also considers 41 protests or complaints related to the public health situation and 14 complaints related to the housing crisis in Cuba.
