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@pauloCanning
Sep 30, 2022 • 100 tweets • 30 min read • Read on X
Cuba's Internet is down amid reports of protests against the ongoing blackout and the regime's incompetence happening in several locations. There are also reports of troops on the streets.
"People have already learned that to solve problems you have to protest."
"Remember: the blockade is from the PCC. There is no electricity, there is no oil, there is no food, but there are resources to repress."
14ymedio.com/cuba/Centenare…
Hundreds were apparently on the streets in Havana last night but with the Internet down reporting is patchy.
Here are Cubans in the region hardest hit by Ian booing the President yesterday.
Telephone lines cut off as well. And "the last thing that was known from the island was the military deployment around 7pm to repress the protests."
The Internet came back. There's a bunch of videos like this from Havana of Cubans taking to the streets and denouncing the regime.
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Not in english unfortunately but this is very good from @JimenezEnoa on the state of Cuba right now.
washingtonpost.com/es/post-opinio…
translatingcuba.com/the-cuban-regi…
Here we go again.
“Down with the dictatorship, enough already!”
'Those who have been able to charge their cell phones and record the protests try not to focus directly on people's faces, since the Police later use these recordings to identify and arrest them, as happened on 11J.'
"I am materialistic, I am not idealistic, I believe in what I see; if in 72 hours they have not done anything, I have to say that nothing is done."
'Three days after the impact of the cyclone, the lack of electricity mainly affects the little food stored in the refrigerators. This has led to the pressing need to consume the reserves of meat, milk and other products.'
14ymedio.com/cuba/poblacion…
'In the midst of the crisis the Armed Forces Ministry remained with all its lights on. This waste, in a building usually dark at this time, suggests not only a display of power by the military leadership, but also a sign that they are vigilant to repress any possible protest.' Image
Another video of last night's protest wave in Cuba. 'The problem is not the electricity, nor the cyclone, nor "the enemy". The problem is the government of @PartidoPCC corrupt, repressive, immoral, dynastic.'
There were at least 14 seperate protests last night just in Havana.
maphub.net/proyectoinvent…
Today the protests and road blocks continue for the third day in Cuba.
@invntario is mapping them all.
Cuban police are avoiding confrontations but are instead sending rapid response brigades of other Cubans with sticks to beat protesters. People blocked airport roads and the regime rallied to protect the Plaza de la Revolución, the power centre.
14ymedio.com/cuba/extienden…
"Our building smells rotten, from the food that was spoiled without refrigeration, from the garbage that older people on the highest floors cannot go down to throw away, and from the system itself that stinks like a corpse even though it continues to resist burial."
Cuban teachers mobilised to form Rapid Response groups to beat up the protesters. via @MarioJPenton Image
Ordinary Cubans sick to the back teeth of excuses. Western lefties will never understand this. Never. Because they start from a privilige they don't understand as a privilige.
Cuba is not your petri dish. Actual people live there.
The Cuban regime fear the Cuban people. Get that and you get Cuba. Image
The tobacco growing region of Cuba was hard hit by #IanHurricane Diaz-Canal visited and promised free mattresses for those impacted. He lied. They're not free. "They must pay 50% of the price or ask for bank credits or subsidies to cover it"
'After one of the most severe telecommunications blackouts it has suffered , ETECSA and its directors return to posting on their social networks and other official channels without realizing that anything has happened or giving any explanation.'
Imagine living like this.
The Western left cannot. They're incapable of understanding. They so want imaginary Cuba to work they could care less about ordinary Cubans. They blame the embargo and ignore the regime's crazy policies.
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Havana's airport has electricity. That's why folks did road blocks because they has electricity and ordinary Cubans did not. This is not the reason Cuba stopped flights.
americateve.com/miami/se-paral…
The ordinary Cubans protesting are 'bestial delinquents' according to the regime's supporters. This is what they really think of Cubans who refuse to pretend. Image
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Cuba is militarising against protest. Of course it is. Their enemy are Cubans.
translatingcuba.com/protests-are-s…
"The communists could try to save themselves, but with each passing minute, that horizon appears darker and more complex. It’s time to reset the button and restart. Cuba has already done it in the past and can do it again now." @EliasAmor58 translatingcuba.com/cuba-it-is-the…
'The combat order was given' was the line Diaz-Canal delivered in July last year that the protests be crushed. Image
Cubans setting up baricades in Havana last night.
'Plainclothes policemen and members of the BRR (Rapid Response Brigades) beat peaceful protesters in Línea and F Vedado.'
'The regime is mobilizing hundreds of troops in civilian clothes to suppress peaceful demonstrations.'
This report includes a communist official saying that protest is a right but "not helpful",
This video shows the plain clothed cadets the regime is sending out to beat up protesting Cubans.
3 days of protests in Cuba is unprecedented. 30 protests since 9/29/2022 in some 26 neighborhoods in and around Havana as recorded by @invntario Image
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Cubans have asked America for #IanHurricane aid, as they also did recently with the oil refinery fire. Again, this is unprecedented.
Last night, Havana, in front of foreign press. 'Yes you can protest but no slogans against the dictatorship'.
First pictures of those arrested and of course they are Afro-Cuban.
Dayamí and Yaima Villavicencio Hernández arrested in Santa Clara, along with their son. "As a protest, when they were locked up they stripped naked and refused food." m.facebook.com/story.php?stor… ImageImage
And, as they always do, they cut Yoani's Internet access. She's still here cos "luck there are still supportive friends."
Another video from Havana last night. 'Libertad!'
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The deployment of force against protesters in Cuba is much greater then on July 11 last year.
14ymedio.com/cuba/Cuba-mani…
Its a brave act for a Cuban to send a clip to an American journalist.
Another video of the military cadets, armed with sticks, marching and chanting slogans, heading up a Havana street to beat up protesting Cubans.
They start off with mockery and when that doesn't pan out they'll start on America somehow being responsible. This has yet to happen but watch this space. Obviously the Haiti/NYT thing is a lie. Image
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Pictures from Periodismo de Barrio of protests in Havana where people demanded "electricity and water, and they also demanded freedom."
A curfew announced in one Cuban town. This is the fourth day of protests in Cuba. Everything suggests the repression will get tougher tonight.
This is like something from the Daily Mail in its description of the poor Cubans protesting their government.
cubadebate.cu/especiales/202… v
@lamelherrera
Folks love to moan about the left and Cuba but the European Embassies in Havana are saying nothing about what's happening on the streets outside and that's kinda more important.
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"In Pinar del Río, many of the houses were already destroyed by the action of cyclones in the past. The problems in Cuba are not fixed, they are frozen." @EliasAmor58 cuba-economia.blogspot.com/2022/10/las-ra… ImageImage
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'We are very concerned about the extensive deployment of repressive forces from the MININT and the FAR throughout the country in recent days and last night in particular.

We have registered 20 arrests from 09/30 to today.'
"As long as the leaders remain disconnected from the reality faced by the population, the fear of protesting will be less and the cry for freedom will be louder along with the demands that are repeated year after year."
havanatimes.org/features/the-p…
"Cuba regularly tries to distinguish between “legitimate” protests and “counter-revolutionary” protests. While the former is enshrined in the constitution, the government says it will not tolerate the latter. The distinction often breaks down in practice."
theguardian.com/world/2022/oct…
Cacerolazo again tonight in Havana. Day 4. 100 hours without electricity.
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Two young linemen for the state electricity company have died restoring power but their deaths haven't been acknowledged by the state. Similar happened during the Matanzas refinery fire in August with young cadets whose deaths were ignored.
diariodecuba.com/cuba/166474806…
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Cacerolazo in another suburb in Havana. Day 4. 100 hours without electricity.
Protests in Cuba did continue on Sunday. Here is one. Also more road blockades. Now on day 5 of completely unprecedented protests by Cubans.
A big reason that there is little reporting of these events is because of the difficulties in reporting from Cuba. I know journalists who cannot just go and report. Image
The repression has not by led by uniformed police but by cadets in plain clothes, sent out by officers armed with sticks. Image
Like clockwork Diaz-Canal calls the ordinary Cubans protesters protesting his regime's incompetence counter-revolutionary and suggests links with Miami.
Repression in El Vedado, Havana on Sunday night.
Nuevo Vedado is a Havana neighbourhood where only the most loyal got housed. As @rescobarcasas relates here, even this neighbourhood banged pots for the electricity to come back. Cubans have lost their fear.
www-14ymedio-com.translate.goog/cuba/barrio-pr…
Another video from last night, this is a town outside Havana. There are issues with showing peoples faces or even exact locations with distributing such videos.
In english translatingcuba.com/the-reasons-fo…
If you focus solely on the 'blockade' you are ignoring the Cuban people. As the people focused on the blockade are demonstrating right now. They refuse to hear them. Image
*There's also a claim there that 50,000 Cuban homes were destroyed. They seem to have made that number up. ht @ngameztorres
If you listen to Cubans who want reform, Cubans who call themselves socialists, minority Cubans, they all reject the false 'unity' of the CCP. They want more democracy. They want the elderly white leadership to let go. I don't know how change happens but it's inevitable.
From last year. This is a good intro to the diversity of Cuban opinion.
These people are very loud and very insistent that America is the cause of all Cuba's problems. They are not all Cubans and their claim to be a majority is based on nothing but a belief. Image
One of the most telling things Díaz-Canal has said is about the "different attitudes that people adopt in extreme situations." "The attitude of a group of people who, regardless of their affectations, make claims from positions of total misunderstanding, challenging, offending."
For Díaz-Canel, these individuals offend "the very people who are in charge of solving those problems" and he thinks it "more useful that, with all those concerns they may have, they start helping those who are working in the places."
"These people take advantage of these circumstances to make other types of expressions, which are counterrevolutionary."
They have to arrest Cubans who call them out to "protect the stability of the population, adequate social coexistence."
diariodecuba-com.translate.goog/cuba/166478864…
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