MIAMI, United States.- Cubans residing in the Luis Dagnes neighborhood, Altamira Popular Council, in the province of Santiago de Cuba, took to the streets this Monday to protest the blackouts and the precarious economic situation in which the city lives, according to reported 14ymedio.
According to the note, the demonstration “provoked the presence of several military and public order forces, while the demonstrators shouted phrases against the Government.”
According to statements made to the media by the activist Aurora Sancho “it all started with a neighbor who started making noise with an iron and complaining. Little by little others were added. People couldn’t take it anymore today.”
“What they have with us is an abuse. All morning without light and the current went out again at 11 in the morning, ”she added.
Sancho explained to 14ymedio that during the demonstration “they shouted slogans against Miguel Díaz-Canel, they also demanded that they turn on the power”, it was then that “they filled this with police, red berets and State Security also arrived”.
14yMedio quoted some residents of the area, who said that “during the protests, the provincial authorities of the Assembly of People’s Power, headed by its president, Beatriz Johnson, began a revolutionary harangue to reassure the protesters.”
“Beatriz Johnson was brought in to make a speech and people yelled at her. And to applaud her they brought the members of a Rapid Response Brigade. So far they have not returned our electricity service and this is still totally taken over by the police,” added Sancho.
The activist explained that the agents of Santiago de Cuba “entered the neighborhood wanting to repress, but the people were only demonstrating peacefully. They wanted to hit, but the neighbors did not let them. They handcuffed a young man who was just watching the protest and when they were going to take him away, the people themselves protested with more force and forced him to release him.”
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