Cuba: “spontaneous” demonstrations but also “obvious attempts to generalize them”
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People shout slogans against the government during a demonstration of support and protest against the government, amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, in Havana, Cuba on July 11, 2021. REUTERS - ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI
By: Florent Guignard
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Thousands of Cubans took to the streets Sunday July 11 to protest the government and the economic crisis.
All over the island, spontaneous, massive and above all unprecedented demonstrations surprised the authorities.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel accuses "
the Cuban-American mafia
" of having organized this uprising and asks his supporters to respond in the street.
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