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Diario de Cuba
On February 24 the
Ordinary Official Gazette No. 20 published Agreement 8999/2021 of the Council of Ministers, which set down a new and comprehensive expansion of the "Zones and Roads of Interest for the Security and Internal Order in Havana." The document, in short, guarantees draconian security in the area where Cuba's powerful elite usually lives, works and moves about.
It also creates a legal justification to quash any type of protest in front of ministries or state institutions.
The text mentions several districts and some specific roads in the capital that will become a sort of "special" or "secure" zones, controlled in an absolute manner by the Ministry of the Interior (MININT). These areas are: Siboney-Atabey, Cubanacán, La Coronela, Plaza, Vedado, Príncipe, Colón-Nuevo Vedado, Ceiba-Kholy, Vedado-Malecón, Sevillano, Tallapiedra and very specific roads in the municipalities of Marianao, La Lisa and Boyeros.