2024-04-04 03:42:35
Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
Photo: Aroldis Chapman / Instagram
March 17 will go down in the history of Cuba as a new day where the people took to the streets to protest the precarious situation that the country is going through, marked in recent weeks by long blackouts and shortages of all kinds.
Specifically in the city of Santiago de Cuba this Sunday thousands of people took to the streets to demand “current and food”, a phrase that became a slogan along with the cry of “Homeland and Life”, even in front of the first secretary of the Party in that province Beatriz Jhonson Urrutia.
Of course, the repercussions of these events were not long in coming and social networks became the ideal showcase for hundreds of personalities, inside and outside the island, to give visibility to the situation, which also extended to the city of Bayamo. at night.
In the world of sports, the Holguín pitcher Aroldis Chapman was one of the first figures to react to the protests of the day that some media already describe as “17-M”, in reference to the still remembered July 11, 2021, which passed to history as “J/11”.
The current closer of the Pittsburgh Pirates has been one of the main Cuban athletes who have advocated for political change in Cuba for several years, so when he found out what was happening in his country he immediately shared it on his Instagram account several stories where you can see videos of the protests, both in Santiago and Bayamo.
One of the publications that the two-time World Series champion amplified is authored by the Cuban singer and rapper Osmani García, who posted on his own profile a video of the demonstrations of the people of Santiago, accompanying it with the text: “Santiago always the first to put the breast on.”
In addition to that reel, “The Cuban Misil” also echoed other publications from various accounts of well-known Cuban influencers, such as “El Bafletazo”, Alejandro Pérez of @cubaurbanonoticias_, and the Pichi Boys, who amplified videos and photos of the protests.
At the other end of the repercussions, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel published a tweet downplaying the seriousness of what was happening. The president said that only “several people have expressed their dissatisfaction with the situation of the electrical service and the distribution of food” and once again blamed the “enemies of the Revolution” for using the context “for destabilizing purposes.”
“In the last few hours we have seen how terrorists based in the United States, whom we have denounced on repeated occasions, encourage actions against the internal order of the country,” said Díaz-Canel in a second tweet, before using the hackneyed resource that “in the middle of a blockade that aims to suffocate us, we will continue working in peace to get out of this situation.”