This is “an average of more than 11 public demonstrations per day,” the report states. Most of them took place in the form of cacerolazos and were concentrated in the province of Artemisa, followed by Cienfuegos, Holguín, and Camagüey. The Observatorio Cubano de Conflictos (the “Cuban Observatory of Conflicts”) reports a total of 624 protests between July and August of this year, of which 263 occurred in July and 361 in August. Many have their faces covered to avoid being identified by the regime's forces. In recent months, protesters tended to speak out against blackouts and food shortages by banging pots and pans, known as cacerolazos. Cacerolazos and virtual appeals from mothers Before Hurricane Ian, they have been small in comparison with the one that took place on July 11, 2021, in Havana, but they are a sign of the generalized discontent in the country due to the inability of the regime to find solutions to the country's energy problems. Most of the protests have been focused in various locations in the provinces because these are the places that suffer the most from blackouts. This civic spirit of resistance that was ignited last year has been present in the systematic protests that have taken place in the interior of the country during 2022, especially since June. that exceeds the number of those from the Mariel boatlift in 1980. This context generated a migratory crisis with an exodus of Cubans from Nicaragua to the U.S. 15 of that year, imposing excessive prison sentences on many demonstrators. The Cuban regime brutally repressed the protests and the failed civic march called for Nov. After those unforgettable days deemed unprecedented in Cuba, which spread to the rest of the country, life has not changed much. In 2021, people took to the streets to protest against the increase in inflation, the dollarization of the economy, and power cuts in the difficult context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is deemed a “new social outburst” by local media.

Cubans have participated in over 30 protests throughout the country since Sept. New, bigger protests have emerged after Hurricane Ian left two days of blackout in Cuba in its wake.

In 2022, blackouts have been aggravated by failures in thermoelectric plants, and the shortage of food and medicines has increased. The structural causes that triggered them not only lay beneath the surface, but have worsened as the political, economic, and social crises worsen. More than a year has passed since the historic protests of Jin Cuba and a new wave of demonstrations continues to shake the island. This story was written by an author in Cuba under the pseudonym Luis Rodriguez.

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