Anger In Cuba Runs Deep

 

BBC: Cuba protests: Frustration at government runs deep 

Cuba's communist rulers and state-controlled media are alleging that anti-government protests that swept across the island on Sunday were "organised and financed" from the United States, and egged on by a "perverse" and co-ordinated communications campaign on social media. 

"There was no social uprising," Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez was quoted by the Communist Party daily Granma as saying. "There were riots, disorder, caused by a communications operation that has been prepared for some time, to which multi-million dollar resources have been destined: laboratories, technological platforms [backed] with funds of the United States government." 

However, monitoring of state media websites prior to the protests shows that Cubans had been voicing deep frustration, despair and anger online long before they took to the streets in their thousands to complain about shortages of food and medicines, power and water interruptions and an apparently faltering government response to surging Covid-19 cases.  

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WNU Editor: Another main stream media article explaining why Cubans are protesting, but avoiding the issue of how much these people want freedom. 

The current situation in Cuba reminds me of what I saw and experienced in the former Soviet Union before it fractured 30 years ago. 

It always takes time, but in the end a breaking point is reached, and people will no longer care (or fear) the government that controls them. 

I do not know if Cuba is at that breaking point right now. But it is getting there.