Unexpected: Thousands gather in Communist Cuba, stage massive protests

Protests began in the morning in the town of San Antonio de los Banjo in the western part of the country and in the eastern town of Palma Soriano. In both cases protesters were hundreds of sosh.

With millions of Cubans having mobile internet on their phones, news of the protests soon spread to Havana. And even in the capital, the march started by thousands of people with the cheers “and life” and “liri”, reports Guardian, translated Periscope in Albanian.

I'm here because of hunger, because there's no medicine, because there's a power out because there's a shortage of everything,” said a man in his 40s who didn't want to show his name by fearing the state's revenge.

I want total change: government change, multi-party elections, and the end of communism. ”

Protesters faced uniformed police officers and civil clothes that were put into their cars by hundreds of demonstrators.

With one stone in each hand, 17-year-old Yusniel Peres said: “we are here because we are hungry and poor. We have no food. We got nothing. ”

At three o'clock in the afternoon, all television channels were cut off to issue the country an address by President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who said those who “would destabilise the country” face revolutionary “response “.

We call on all revolutionaries in this country, all Communists, to get out on the street. ”

This led to a cat-to-cat game. New government protesters tried to capture the capital's ikeonic parts, but were blocked by government supporters, state security and military. /Periscope