Popular protests in Cuba

Talking about the popular protests in Cuba with Exilda Arjona and Alejandro Marcano in the Tempranito y de Mañana show on Radio Marti. August 3, 2022.

Today on the 28th anniversary of the freedom protests known as El Maleconazo it is worth remembering that since the early days of 1959 no Cuban has ever ceased to demand their rights and freedoms. Protest has always been present in one form or another throughout 6 decades of totalitarianism in Cuba. Both the generation of young university students in 1959 and 1960 who opposed the authoritarian and communist course of the triumphant regime, as well as the young intellectuals of Lunes de Revolución, the Human Rights Movement and the generation of Patria y Vida have raised their voices for the right to live in a pluralistic, democratic and inclusive nation.

More than 3,266 protests have taken place in Cuba since July 11, 2021 when the largest spontaneous pro-democratic protest in Cuba's recent history took place. The protagonists. So far this year, in 2022 the Cuban Observatory of Conflicts reports about 1,713 protests against crippling blackouts, misery and oppression.