Hundreds of Cubans demand "current and food" in the streets of Santiago. "We are hungry!" repeated those gathered at the moment when police and soldiers were deployed to appease the protest.
In recent weeks, maintenance work on the largest thermoelectric plant on the island has been added to the constant fuel shortage. The situation is so precarious that the Minister of Energy, Vicente de la O Levy, acknowledged this Saturday that "practically the country is affected, including Havana. the country".