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Cuba: Before and After the July 11th Protests

Haroldo Dilla comments on the nationwide protests that took place in Cuba on July 11, 2021. He also compares with what happened in the 1990s.

Just ten days before the Tokyo Olympic Games kick off, there are still doubts about the dangers involved in holding this event.

Reynaldo Escobar of 14ymedio daily writes about the severe crisis facing Cubans, and the hurdles to overcome for humanitarian action.

Bob Lintjer from the United States took our photo of the day: “Feeding Time” in Havana, Cuba. He used a Samsung Moto Gen 2 camera.

Thousands took to the streets of Havana and other cities in rare protests, denouncing the economic crisis & handling of Covid-19.

“Combat order?” I imagine all Cuba was as stupefied as I was, when these words emerged from the mouth of President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

What’s happening in Cuba is as serious as it is unprecedented. Diaz-Canel sounded the war horn: “the streets belong to the revolutionaries”.

The regime cut or interrupted the internet connection throughout the country to prevent Cubans from uploading videos to social networks.

Greg Rothschild from the United States took our photo of the day: “Shoemaker of Love” in Santiago de Cuba. He used a Fuji XT-2 camera.

The simultaneous protests coincide with the fact that Cuba is in its worst moment in terms of new infections and deaths from COVID-19…