A large group of Cubans took to the streets in the city of Cienfuegos on Tuesday night, banging on pots in protest over the endless blackouts they are suffering through due to the corruption of the communist Castro regime.
Via Diario de Cuba (my translation):
Residents of Juraguá, Cienfuegos, took to the streets banging pots and pans on Tuesday night to protest against the prolonged blackouts affecting Cubans across the island.
In a video posted by Univision journalist Daniel Benítez on his X account, a crowd is seen peacefully banging pots and pans in the street, illuminated by the lights of an ambulance.
Regarding the protest, which DIARIO DE CUBA could not independently verify, journalist José Raúl Gallego wrote: “The people of CEN (the neighborhood of the abandoned Juraguá Nuclear Power Plant), in Cienfuegos, took to the streets tonight to celebrate that they can now open dollar accounts in American banks when the Cuban dictatorship restores the power.”
Gallego made an ironic reference to the approval on Tuesday of a series of “regulatory amendments” aimed at “supporting independent entrepreneurs in the Cuban private sector and expanding access to certain financial services for the Cuban people,” according to a press release from the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
The director of the independent magazine La Hora de Cuba also echoed the protest on Instagram. He celebrated that, with pots and shouts, dozens of people “shed their fear to demand what they deserve and to live with dignity within their own country.”
Amidst the public discontent and on the same day that energy supply was about 50% of the national demand—the worst deficit in years, with nine plants out of service—Miguel Díaz-Canel made an appearance at the Ernesto Guevara Thermoelectric Plant in Santa Cruz del Norte, Mayabeque.
This protest is just one of countless others taking place on the island almost every day as Cubans have reached their limit of misery after 65 years of failed socialist policies.