At least six neighborhoods in Havana, Cuba, erupted in anti-communist protests between Monday night and Tuesday morning, featuring residents shouting “down with communism!” and “freedom!” while confronting the Castro regime’s repressive forces.
The protests, multiple independent Cuban news outlets reported, began after the capital city experienced a 15-hour blackout, an increasingly common occurrence nationwide, though the Castro regime had previously succeeded in saving the capital city from power grid failure. Tourism is one of the Communist Party’s most lucrative industries, at its peak raking in billions of dollars for the regime — and making the preservation of reasonable access to electricity pivotal for Havana, the city most commonly visited by tourists. The decades of neglect of the nation’s power grid and lack of investment in any of the country’s infrastructure has caught up with Havana, however, sending tourism revenue plunging.
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At least six neighborhoods in Havana, Cuba, erupted in anti-communist protests between Monday night and Tuesday morning, featuring residents shouting “down with communism!” and “freedom!” while confronting the Castro regime’s repressive forces.
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The protests, multiple independent Cuban news outlets reported, began after the capital city experienced a 15-hour blackout, an increasingly common occurrence nationwide, though the Castro regime had previously succeeded in saving the capital city from power grid failure. Tourism is one of the Communist Party’s most lucrative industries, at its peak raking in billions of dollars for the regime — and making the preservation of reasonable access to electricity pivotal for Havana, the city most commonly visited by tourists. The decades of neglect of the nation’s power grid and lack of investment in any of the country’s infrastructure has caught up with Havana, however, sending tourism revenue plunging.
