Cuba: September was the month with the most protests on the island in the last year

365 were the number of protests registered in September in Cuba, being the last two days the most conflictive: with 43 cacerolazos, roadblocks and marches in different cities. This would represent the month with the highest number of protests since July 2021, This was confirmed by the latest report of the Cuban Conflict Observatoryentity in charge of measuring and exposing the conflict on the island.

According to the report, the motivations of the various protests They are: 227 (67%), for political and civil rights; and 137 (38%), for economic and social rights.

Likewise, the report specified the reasons, highlighting the natural disaster generated by Hurricane Ian (which left 30,000 homes affected), the total collapse of the National Energy System, and the worsening of a new dengue epidemic.

For his part, Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel warns that: “The demonstrators carry out counterrevolutionary expressions, such as closing roads or throwing stones at cheap places. That is already out of the law and those situations They will be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law.”

Also, the President assured that the demonstration would be supported from abroad: “we know all the links they have with all that counterrevolution that from the outside encourages and pays for that behavior.”

The island is already recovering from the disaster caused by the Hurricane Ian (main reason for the demonstrations in recent days). The Presidency of Cuba constantly updates information on progress and ensures that in different places The electricity and telephone service is already being restored. as well as the evacuated people are sheltered in protection centers.

INTERNATIONAL WRITING*
With information from Eph.