[ UPI ] Anti-government protests erupt in Cuba

The communist island nation of Cuba erupted into anti-government protests on Sunday as people took to the streets against a deepening economic crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The protests, the largest seen in decades, saw thousands march the streets from its famed Malecon in Havana to Santiago de Cuba at the nation’s southeastern tip as people chanted “freedom” and “yes, we can” in opposition to increasing blackouts and food and medical shortages, The Washington Post reported.

“Thousands of Cubans want to live better and with basic freedoms,” he said. “Faced with that fair claim, it seems that, once again, [Diaz-Canel] is only capable of responding with repression.”

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said it has also received reports of use of force, arrests and attacks on protesters and journalists, as well as cuts to the Internet.

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