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Street protests break out in Cuba By Syndicated Content
Jul 11, 2021 | 4:05 PM
HAVANA (Reuters) – Thousands of Cubans took to Cuba’s streets from Havana to Santiago on Sunday, frustrated by months of crisis, pandemic restrictions and what they said was government neglect.
By late afternoon President and head of the Communist Party Miguel Diaz-Canel was speaking to the nation, saying the United States was responsible for the unrest. Special forces jeeps, with machine guns mounted on the back, were in Havana and Diaz-Canel called on supporters to confront âprovocationsâ, saying that supporters were ready to defend the government with their lives.
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President and head of the Communist Party Miguel Diaz-Canel attended one of the protests in San Antonio de Los Banos, which is located west of Havana. Social media footage showed protesters shouting insults at the president.
Diaz-Canel has accused the United States of orchestrating the unrest, and called on government supporters to confront provocations. We are calling on the revolutionaries in the country, all the communists, to hit the streets wherever there is an effort to produce these provocations, Diaz-Canel said in broadcast remarks on Sunday.
The government has deployed special forces vehicles mounted with machine guns in major cities in response to the demonstrations.
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