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Cuba Shuts Down Internet, Deploys Regime Thugs to Silence Growing Hurricane Protests

October 02, 2022
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The Communist Party of Cuba appeared to shut down access to the internet nationwide on Thursday night and deploy its repressive forces on the ground in Havana and other major cities in response to civilians organizing ongoing protests demanding an end to communism.

 

The protests this week are being exacerbated by the government’s total incompetence in handling the arrival of Hurricane Ian, which at one point on Tuesday resulted in an island-wide failure of the national power grid. At press time, communist authorities claim that only 12 percent of the power grid is operational, making electricity accessible only in the wealthiest parts of the country – controlled by Communist Party elites – and in luxury tourist destinations. The regime-controlled Gaviota tourism agency boasted on Twitter on Thursday that its luxury hotels remain fully functional.

 

 

In areas where Cuban citizens live, many are protesting that they have endured rolling blackouts for months – which have triggered consistent outbursts of protesting nationwide for the past year. Cubans have consistently opposed communism for decades – prompting their regime to engage in mass killings via firing squad, build labor camps, and commit other atrocities common to its ideology – but the Anglophone West noticed most recently last year during a nationwide protest on July 11, 2021. That protest also resulted in severe human rights abuses, in particular the mass detention of child political prisoners, and protests calling for an end to communism have persisted long after American corporate media outlets stopped covering them.

 

Locals speaking to independent Cuban and diaspora outlets lament that their food is rotting with little possibility of electricity returning and that local shops do not have supplies, putting into question the long-term food stability of affected areas.

 

Protests appeared to begin in Havana on Thursday afternoon. The independent outlet Cubanet shared a video taken by locals of large groups of people taking the streets in Havana chanting “we want light!” and marching. Most of the protesters appeared to be women.

 

 


Cubanet reported that four different Havana neighborhoods experienced protests throughout Thursday.

 

The Madrid-based publication Diario de Cuba, reporting on the same protest, estimated that “hundreds” of Cubans marched against the regime on Thursday, chanting both “we want light!” and “freedom!” Anonymous Havana residents told Diario de Cuba that citizens are panicking about their food supplies.

 

“The lack of electricity has caused many people’s food to rot in their refrigerators. Those who have access to gas for cooking can avoid this by boiling meat, as many have done,” Diario de Cuba reported, “but those who also need electricity to cook do not have this option.”

 

“People are tired, brother, its the same thing always,” one protester can be heard lamenting in other videos shared by Cubans on social media. “It’s all talk, its too much already. There is no Revolution and no nothing, here what there is is repression.”

 

 Other videos from Havana shared on social media, which Breitbart News has been unable to independently verify, appear to show puppet Castro regime “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel attempting to make a community visit but being met by boos and ultimately slinking away from an increasingly angry crowd.

 

 

 

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