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Hundreds of artists and academics publicly challenged the Ministry of Culture and officials agreed to dialogue then back tracked on agreement
Despite the best efforts of the Castro regime to shutdown and dismantle the San Isidro protest, the regime ended up with a much larger problem than 14 protesters in a modest home in the neighborhood of San Isidro in Havana. Young people, mostly artists and academics, began gathering throughout the day of November 27th in front of the Ministry of Culture and their numbers continued growing into the evening demanding that the Minister meet with the protesters to negotiate terms for a dialogue.
On a positive note the last of the hunger strikers, Maykel Castillo, ended his strike on November 30, 2020. On a further positive note there will be a protest at the Cuban Embassy in Washington DC on Thursday, December 3rd at 3:00pm. Please bring poetry to read at the protest.
Thirty representatives elected by the hundreds gathered went in and met with the officials, and emerged with a commitment to dialogue and to consider the points raised by the protesters. Meanwhile the dictatorship sent truckloads of plainclothes security to surround the demonstrators, and to intimidate them. They also closed off the path to the Ministry of Culture, and began using tear gas and physical force to prevent others from continuing to join the protesters.
Instead of following through with a dialogue to resolve the differences that had generated the protests the regime launched a media assault against the San Isidro Movement against the protesters. The autocracy in Havana has reason to be concerned. International media coverage has reported on the protest, and their demands.
Consider that on November 26, 2020 at 8pm reports emerged that the Castro regime shut off internet and cell phone traffic, shortly before raiding the San Isidro Movement headquarters, and network data from the NetBlocks Internet Observatory confirmed a wider and sustained "partial disruption to social media and streaming platforms in Cuba between Friday 27 November 2020 and Monday 30 November 2020.
The disruptions are likely to limit the flow of independently sourced information from Cuba. The incident follows three days of limited service and comes amid protests in Havana by a group calling for artistic rights." Twitter and WhatsApp were apparently impacted.
Young Cubans gathered outside the Ministry of Culture on November 27, 2020
On November 27, 2020 the independent publication Diario de Cuba pieced together the different videos surrounding the raid on the San Isidro headquarters the day before and posted them edited together into one video on Youtube. Regime officials claimed that the raid was due to concerns about COVID-19, but the individuals dressed like doctors did not behave like doctors, and the crowd that they gathered outside to shout revolutionary slogans, without mask coverings, did not accord with protocols for the epidemic. Nor returning the bulk of the San Isidro activists to their homes within hours of their detention.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020
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