Protests in Santiago de Cuba: "Food and power"
Coverage of the March 17, 2024 protests in Santiago de Cuba, El Cobre and Bayamo, with thousands demanding food and electricity.
Citizen protests
People in the streets: 11J and after
A dated, located record of peaceful protests in Cuba, from the historic July 11, 2021 to recent pot-banging protests (cacerolazos) and local marches.
17M: protests for “power and food” in Santiago de Cuba (2024)
On March 17, 2024, hundreds of people, many of them mothers with children, marched along Santiago de Cuba's Carretera del Morro chanting 'Power and food'; there were also protests in Bayamo and Palma Soriano.
Sentenced to 20 years: the testimony of Teodoro Pablo Martínez, Cuban political prisoner
Teodoro Pablo Martínez, detained at age 22 and sentenced to 20 years in prison, recounts his case after leaving Cuba.
Protest in Caimanera, Guantánamo (May 6, 2023)
Hundreds of Caimanera residents gathered outside the local Communist Party office chanting 'Freedom!'; that night internet traffic collapsed across the island and people were detained.
Cacerolazos (pot-banging protests) in Nuevitas, Camagüey (August 2022)
On the nights of August 18 and 19, 2022, residents of Nuevitas' Pastelillo neighborhood banged pots against blackouts of up to 18 hours; in 2024, 13 people were sentenced to 4 to 15 years, most for sedition.
Cuba: one year after 11J, the people's mass protest against the government
A one-year retrospective on the mass protests of July 11, 2021, and the crackdown that followed.
Sentences of up to 20 years for those detained in the July protests
Coverage of the sentences of up to 20 years in prison handed down to peaceful protesters detained during the 11J demonstrations.
15N: the Civic March for Change declared “illegal” (2021)
The Archipiélago platform called a peaceful march for November 15, 2021; the government declared it unlawful, prosecutors warned of criminal charges, and organizer Yunior García's home was surrounded.
Cuba's harsh crackdown on the July 11 protesters
A report on the Cuban regime's repressive response to the mass protests of July 11, 2021.
Díaz-Canel: "The combat order has been given"
Díaz-Canel's nationwide broadcast address on July 11, 2021, calling on "revolutionaries" to take to the streets and confront the protesters.
11J: the protest in San Antonio de los Baños
On the morning of July 11, 2021, residents of San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, took to the street over blackouts and lack of medicine; a Facebook livestream spread across Cuba.