MIAMI, United States. – Agents of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) of Nuevitas, in Camagüey, beat at least three girls aged 11 and 12 who were trying to prevent the arrest of a demonstrator during the second night of protests in that city of Camagüey.
“They are children! They are girls!”, is heard shouting in a live broadcast of the profile “LaChamaca DeChamaco Yaestaostinada”, as the young woman who recorded live moments of the two nights of protests in Nuevitas identifies herself.
As can be seen in several videos broadcast in the early hours of this Saturday by the Facebook user, the policemen struggled with the girls until they released the man who accompanied them and whom they violently detained.
The girls themselves offered their testimony in another video Posted by the same Facebook user.
“The police to catch him prisoner [al manifestante que las acompañaba], they hit us, so that we could let him go. They were a stack and a fat one there, that was the one that got me hard, “said one of the two minors.
Both showed the marks of the blows received on the back, legs and feet.
In another video republished by the platform Cubans around the world, one of the minors tells: “They gave me here [pierna]here [cintura]I turned around later and they hit me here [espalda]”.
Meanwhile, another added: “I grabbed and hit him, because they hit me, and I fell and they ‘put’ me too. They ‘put’ me here [espalda]by the feet”.
On the night of this Friday and early Saturday morning, residents of Nuevitas took to the streets for the second consecutive day to denounce the prolonged power cuts that reach up to 18 hours.
Less than 24 hours earlier, the residents of that city had already staged the largest popular protest against the Cuban authorities since July 11 and 12, 2021.
On Thursday night and early Friday, dozens of residents of Nuevitas they manifested to shouts of “Libertad” and with the conga of “Put the current pin…”.
“Let’s go to the Party. Hey for the Party” and “Put the current pin…Down with Díaz-Canel! Diaz-Canel singao! Down with the dictatorship!” are some of the phrases that the protesters were heard shouting as they walked through the dark streets playing pots.
During the demonstration the Cubans even sang the National anthem. “Nevitas got hot. It’s about time, this is too much. Older people and children can’t stand this anymore,” commented user Alejandro Sariego.
According to several comments on social networks, the residents of Nuevitas have been suffering from long blackouts for three months. Last week, the Electric Company of that province announced power outages of up to 18 hours due to problems with the thermoelectric plants in Cuba.
In Camagüey “it is not possible to continue applying the rotation that until now was implemented and the time of affectation could be in the order of 18 hours,” the statement said.
Last July, the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel told the National Assembly of People’s Power that he understood the popular discontent that was leading Cubans to protest throughout Cuba against the energy crisis, however, he assured that Cubans will not solve anything by demonstrating .
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