“Havana, dead city, with more policemen than inhabitants in the streets”, described from the Cuban capital the independent site 14 intervene, Monday July 11:
“Many police officers, in uniform and in civilian clothes, are deployed in the city center. In their relentlessness to maintain order, the authorities have even succeeded in what seemed unthinkable: to make the queues disappear [devant les magasins].”
A year ago, on July 11, 2021, tens of thousands of demonstrators, relayed by social networks, took to the streets of many cities in the country, shouting, among other things, to “Freedom !” and of “We are hungry !”. That has been the biggest protests since the 1959 revolution.
The repression did not take long. Today, nearly 800 protesters face legal action, according to off-the-record figures