Thousands of Cubans join street protests in the biggest anti-government demonstrations on the Communist-run island in decades.
Cuba blamed historic protests that took place over the weekend on US"economic asphyxiation" and detained some of the highest profile activists, while the Biden administration said it supported the Cuban people's right to demonstrate.
"It's becoming impossible to live here," said Havana resident Maykel, 21, who declined to give his surname for fear of retaliation."I don't know if this can happen again, because at the moment, Havana is militarized."Others Reuters spoke to said they hoped there would be no more protests, citing fears of violence, and saying they would prefer there to be more dialogue.
In Washington, US President Joe Biden said the United States stood with the people of Cuba who were"bravely" asserting their right to peaceful protest, while Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Cuban officials should not blame the protests on US sanctions. In Miami, home to a large community of Cuban Americans, hundreds turned out in Little Havana on Sunday to express solidarity and celebrate what they viewed as the beginning of the end. On Twitter, Miami mayor Francis Suarez implored the United States to"take action.""They threw stones at foreign currency shops, they stole items...and at police forces, they turned over cars – a totally vulgar, indecent, and delinquent behavior," he said.
Network monitoring company Kentik said it had observed the entire country go offline for less than 30 minutes at around 4 pm on Sunday, followed by several hours of intermittent outages. Jose Daniel, the leader of Cuba's largest opposition group, the Patriotic Union of Cuba , was arrested as he left home to join the protest in Santiago de Cuba in the east of the country on Sunday. His whereabouts is unknown, UNPACU activist Zaqueo Baez told Reuters.
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