Posted on 03/14/2026 7:01:52 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Protesters in Cuba have ransacked a Communist Party building following a rally over steep food prices and persistent power cuts, in a rare show of public dissent.
Five people were arrested after a small group vandalised the offices in the central city of Moron overnight into Saturday, Cuba's Interior Ministry (Minint) said.
Discontent among Cubans has been mounting as the island is buffeted by rolling blackouts and shortages of food, fuel and medicine, exacerbated by a prolonged US oil blockade.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said that, while the protesters' complaints and demands were "legitimate", "violence and vandalism that threatens citizen tranquility" would not be tolerated.
He wrote on X that the prolonged blackouts had understandably caused "distress", blaming them on the US blockade that he characterised as having "cruelly intensified in recent months".
The protest came hours after the government in Havana confirmed that talks with the US to "seek solutions through dialogue" to the two countries' differences were under way.
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I’m guessing the Cubans are starting to strip the forests and the countryside farms for food.
The natives are restless. 😉
That’s what happened in North Korea.
BBC must hate reporting this.
The question is whether the Cuban military will turn crew served machine guns on the protesters.
If so we will be exporting ordnance to the Cuban resistance.
Michael Moore & Fiends are deeply saddened.
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