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A series of protests against the Cuban government and the Communist Party of Cuba began on 11 July 2021, triggered by a shortage of food and medicine [36] and the government's response to the resurgent COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba. [28] [37] [38] The protests were the largest anti-government demonstrations since the Maleconazo in 1994.
July 11 – Biggest anti-government protests in years over the worst economic crisis since the 1990s and surges in COVID-19 infections, with protesters expressing anger over shortages of basic goods, curbs on civil liberties, and the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba. [18]
Sunday’s protests were the largest in Cuba since July 11, 2021, when island-wide demonstrations swept through the island. It ended with a heavy crackdown by authorities. There are 675 protesters ...
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Rights groups, the European Union and the United States have critiqued Cuba's response to anti-government protests more than two years earlier on July 11, 2021 - the largest since Fidel Castro's ...
The July 11 protests in Cuba were unprecedented. AP Photo/Ramon EspinosaThousands of Cubans took to the streets across the island around mid-July 2021 in a rare mass expression of dissent in a ...
On 11 July 2021, a series of demonstrations began in Cuba against the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel.The first protests erupted in San Antonio de los Baños, near Havana, and in Palma Soriano, in the province of Santiago de Cuba, with people chanting "Patria y Vida", as well as other slogans and criticizing the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the island and the subsequent ...
The historic protests in Cuba stem from frustration over acute shortages and the communist governemnt's failure to improve the economy amid the pandemic.