{"id":36862,"date":"2024-04-10T11:16:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/?p=36862"},"modified":"2024-04-10T12:44:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T16:44:21","slug":"social-upheaval-in-cuba-reminds-us-of-the-need-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/social-upheaval-in-cuba-reminds-us-of-the-need-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Upheaval In Cuba Reminds Us Of The Need For Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba witnessed a rarity on March 17\u2014protests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hundreds participated in demonstrations throughout Santiago de Cuba\u2014the island\u2019s second largest city\u2014chanting for electricity and food.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b0aQjjn_tEk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">report<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on NBC News by Ed Augustus, a British journalist based in Havana, tensions in Cuba have been simmering as a result of inflation and lack of fuel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although short-lived, the phenomenon echoes the social unrest of the patria y vida (homeland and life) protests in July of 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of citizens swarmed the streets demanding medical supplies and freedom from communist rule.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since then, the Cuban government announced the cost of oil would increase 500 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an article by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/03\/20\/1239711488\/cuba-protests-food-shortage-blackouts-oil\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">NPR<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Cuban economist Ricardo Torres said that oil powers approximately 95 percent of the island\u2019s electricity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the average salary in Cuba is approximately 14 pesos, it takes an estimated 4,500 pesos to fill a gas tank, as stated by Augustus in a <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/now\/video\/cuba-braces-for-increase-in-gas-prices-amid-economic-crisis-203458629597\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">report<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for NBC news in February.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Venezuela was the island&#8217;s main source of fuel, but since that nation\u2019s economic plummet, Cuba has relied on support from Russia and Mexico.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fuel shortages have also resulted in electricity rations throughout the island, with daily power outages lasting from eight to 18 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prices in food, which is rationed by the government, have also soared. Egg cartons, milk and chicken cost more than 2,500 and 3,000 Cuban pesos.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this situation is not new. The Cuban government is notorious for stripping people of power, long before its financial problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuban nationals blame the United States\u2019 hostile stance against the island\u2014namely the 1962\u00a0 embargo instituted under former President John F. Kennedy\u2014for their economic strife.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The embargo, commonly referred to as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">el bloqueo <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(the blockade), hinders U.S. based companies from conducting business with Cuba. There are exemptions, however, for exporting humanitarian aid, such as food and medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That begs the question\u2014how much aid does the government actually distribute?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The island claims it\u2019s being trampled by a world superpower. Yet, more than one million Cubans who have fled the island since the 1959 revolution sing a different song.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba\u2019s glory days, when the island was a center for international business and private industries, are a distant memory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To top it off, there is no freedom of expression on the Caribbean island.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Instagram post by Cubanos por el Mundo, an account dedicated to highlighting the crisis in Cuba, shows protestors being <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C4o77gOulCe\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dragged<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by police officers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People who are detached from the situation fail to see how Cuba\u2019s critical condition is due to its communist dictatorship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need to listen to Cuba\u2019s cry for freedom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba witnessed a rarity on March 17\u2014protests.\u00a0 Hundreds participated in demonstrations throughout Santiago de Cuba\u2014the island\u2019s second largest city\u2014chanting for electricity and food.\u00a0 According to a report on NBC News by Ed Augustus, a British journalist based in Havana, tensions in Cuba have been simmering as a result of inflation and lack of fuel. 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