Coda: Cuba darkens its internet during biggest protests in decades
Cuba follows the new authoritarian handbook in imposing internet blackouts during anti-government demonstrations
A series of internet outages has coincided with Cuba’s largest protests in 30 years as hundreds took to the streets in cities around the country on Sunday chanting anti-government slogans and voicing their discontent at severe food and medicine shortages.
Videos posted to social media by protesters on Sunday have shown hundreds of people marching through Havana and elsewhere in anti-government demonstrations sparked by a worsening economic crisis.
Food and medicine shortages, rising prices and Covid restrictions have seen ordinary Cubans unable to work in the island nation’s tourism industry and led to lengthy queues for basic food items.
One video uploaded to Twitter showed protesters overturning a police car in Cardenas, 90 miles from Havana.
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Update: Cuban Authorities Block Access to Internet in Response to Protests (VOA)
WNU Editor: This is not going to stop the protests.
10 comments:
The first step is done and nothing will stop it.
Kitchen knives and lampposts.
HOPE,
R,
Liberals in charge of Cuba hope that it will work. It worked before in Cuba and it worked in Belarus for the time being.
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