New Delhi: In the largest anti-government demonstration on the communist-managed Cuban island in decades, thousands of Cuba on Monday down to the streets protesting Havana to Santiago singing “down with dictation,” called for President Miguel Diaz-Canel to resign , Protests erupted when the country was against the worst economic crisis since the fall of the Soviet Union, an old ally.
Protesters march through Havana songs “We Want Liberty” as the spread of military and heavy police still watch.
The police used tear gas to disperse the crowd while officers used plastic pipes to beat protesters.
At least 10 people were arrested.
Public anger in Cuba has grown recently due to a number of reasons, including lack of electricity and chronic food.
There is also a surge in recording in everyday cases reported and lack of critical drugs for Koronavirus infection, with Cuba under US sanctions.
Social media shows scenes from anti-government protests throughout the country, but cellular internet – only introduced in Cuba since 2018 – mostly cut off on Sunday afternoon.
Diaz-Canel conveys the television thread address, saying: “The command to fight has been given – to the road, the revolutionaries!” “We called all the country’s revolutionaries, all the communists, to go to the streets where this provocation occurred …
and to deal with it in a decisive, firm and brave way.” ‘A President of Mafia’Cuban Cuban-America Diaz-Canel on Monday blamed the historic protest at the US “economic asfinxiates” and a social media campaign by a counter-revolutionary minority, “a Cuban-American mafia”.
“There is a group of people …
employed by the US government, paid indirectly through US government institutions to regulate this kind of demonstration,” said Diaz-Canel, blaming US sanctions imposed by Donald Trump and left unchanged by President Joe Biden.
President Biden on the other hand called “Cuban regime” to hear their people demanding the purpose of “repression” and poverty.
“We stand with Cuban and call their Clarion for freedom and assistance from tragic pandemic grip and from decades of repression and economic suffering that they have submitted by the Cuban authoritarian regime,” the White House said in the statement quoted Biden.
The reaction around President Worldmexican Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gave Cuban support on Monday, said the US economic embargo on the island must end to help his people.
“The truth is that if someone wants to help Cuba, the first thing to do is to suspend the Cuban blockade because the majority of countries in the world ask,” said Lopez Obrador told a press conference.
UE Foreign Policy Head Josep Borrell urged the Cuban authorities to allow peaceful anti-government protests that have broken on the island and pay attention to the complaints of demonstrators.
“I want to call the government there to allow peaceful demonstrations and listen to the dissatisfaction expressed by the demonstrators,” Borrell said after the EU foreign minister’s meeting in Brussels.