The biggest anti-government protest has been started on Sunday in Cuba, thousands of Cubans are out on the streets demanding and chanting freedom, holding the protest against the worsening economy of the country. The protest started from Havana and so many people got arrested because of this strike, they were being forcefully arrested and thrown up in the police vans. To back the fight against the police the protestors threw rocks at the police.
Why is the protest taking place?
What would you do if you were treated like a caged animal and not even given the right amount of food to eat? the same is happening in Cuba the economy is collapsing and the people are not given food and medicine properly, Cubans had been holding this protest for so many reasons, like food, medicine, improper vaccination facilities, daily blackouts. They had been also stating that there are no nearly the facilities available for people but the hotels and buildings are still on work where is that money coming from and you are leaving people to die?
What’s happening currently in Cuba protests?
People are coming out and chanting freedom also they are asking president Diaz-Canel to step down. The resources also informed that the Cubans had been undergoing power outages for a week and that had “denoted” the growing outrage.
According to the internet monitor netblocks, all the social media platforms had been restricted in Cuba. Netblocks tweeted that on Monday “social media and messaging platforms restricted in #cuba from Monday on state-run internet provider ETECSA: real-time network data corroborate reports of internet disruptions amid widening anti-government protests: incident ongoing #cubaSOS”.
Actions from the side of the Cuban government?
On Monday morning, Diaz-Canel denounced the protesters as “vulgar criminals” who he claimed had attacked police and looted stores. But his tone was less bombastic than the day before. The police out there are forcefully arresting the protestors and violent clashes are turning out. From an anonymous source, we also got to know that, Cuban dictatorship activates “Plan Cacique”.
Plan Cacique is an elaborate plan of action by the communist regime of Cuba to curb dissent, summarized in the following to-do list :
1 – Cut power in Cuba by phases
2- Military disguises as civils infiltrates pacific protests to repress and stop the citizens
3- Closed all access to cities
4- Socialist Special forces arrived in the capital for repression of people
5- Encrypted communications for emergency use
6- order to wait to 19:30 to repress the people so they cant get recorded
7- New technology and gases to spread the pacific protest.
8-Order to eliminate the protest TODAY at any price
9- Doubled the protection of the dictator and public socialists leaders, also hidden of their families.
10- Verify monetary accounts outside the country
11- Military disguise as civils will be recorded as protestors asking for gun violence
12- “Plan Cacique for 72 hours activated.
What the US speaks about this protest?
US president Biden called on the “Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rather than enriching themselves.”
“We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba’s authoritarian regime,” he said in a statement Monday. “The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights. Those rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their future, must be respected.”
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