The uprising
“We’ve been bleeding for 62 years,” said Naples resident Yaisel Aguilar, who defected with her family from Cuba to Florida in 1994.
Protests began Sunday as thousands marched in the island’s largest cities Cienfuegos, capital Havana, Holguin, Matanzas, Santa Clara and Santiago voicing their frustrations with food and medicine shortages as well as the rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
It is considered the country’s biggest anti-government movement in the last 30 years.
In 1994, Cubans took to the streets of Havana during the Maleconazo uprising that late dictator Fidel Castro quashed. His answer to the protest was opening Cuba’s maritime borders resulting in a mass exodus.
The uprising
“We’ve been bleeding for 62 years,” said Naples resident Yaisel Aguilar, who defected with her family from Cuba to Florida in 1994.
Protests began Sunday as thousands marched in the island’s largest cities Cienfuegos, capital Havana, Holguin, Matanzas, Santa Clara and Santiago voicing their frustrations with food and medicine shortages as well as the rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
It is considered the country’s biggest anti-government movement in the last 30 years.
In 1994, Cubans took to the streets of Havana during the Maleconazo uprising that late dictator Fidel Castro quashed. His answer to the protest was opening Cuba’s maritime borders resulting in a mass exodus.
Farm Families Keeping Food on the Table in Utica Rome
They don t have long commutes, punch a clock when they arrive at the job, and there is no work week or weekend. Farming is 24-7, 365. Here are some of the Central New York farmers keeping the food on tables in Utica Rome.
We ve joined with White s Farm Supply to salute the hard working families doing what they love, caring for animals and being good stewards of the land. As a way of saying thanks, Louis J Gale and Son Feed Mill in Waterville provides a farm with a $100 gift certificate.