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Support from the USA: In Miami, US Cubans gathered in front of a restaurant to show their solidarity with the protesters in Cuba
Photo: Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich / EPA
In Cuba, hundreds of people took to the streets on Sunday to protest hour-long power outages.
"People were shouting 'food and electricity,'" reported a resident of the city of Santiago de Cuba, which is located 800 kilometers from the capital Havana in the southeast of the island state.
The power supply was later restored and two trucks delivered rice.
There have been repeated power outages in Cuba's second largest city in recent days that lasted up to 14 hours.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said some people in Santiago had expressed "dissatisfaction" with electricity and food supplies.
This would be abused by “enemies of the revolution” for destabilizing purposes, the president warned on the online service
These would try to foment further uprisings.
The US Embassy in Cuba called on the Cuban government to respect the rights of the protesters.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez then also called on Washington on X not to "interfere in the country's internal affairs."
The power outages that have plagued Cuba since the beginning of March are related to maintenance work at the country's largest power plant, which is located in Matanzas province, east of Havana.
There was also a fuel shortage at the weekend.
The fuel is used to operate other power plants.
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