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[**I’d been awaiting this news since the turmoil in Haiti kicked off. I’m not seeing any imagery of this protest so far..**](https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20240318-rare-protests-erupt-in-cuba-over-food-and-electricity-shortages)

**Instead we’re getting pics of people lined up at a local bakery. [Or people in a local store](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/cuba-protests-food-electricity-shortage)**

**Cuba suggests the US is involved. I’m in agreement.**

> “People were shouting ‘[food](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/food/) and [electricity](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/electricity/)‘,” a 65-year-old resident, who **asked not to be named, told AFP by phone** from the island’s second-largest city of Santiago de Cuba, 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of the capital [Havana](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/havana/).

> Electricity was restored to the city later in the day and “two truckloads of rice” were delivered, **the witness said.**

**How are these unnamed witnesses about to communicate with AFP by phone? Satellite phones and the right persons to contact?**

> ***“Several people have expressed their dissatisfaction with the electricity situation and food distribution,”*** Cuban President [Miguel Diaz-Canel](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/miguel-diaz-canel/) said on X, warning that “enemies of the Revolution” aimed to exploit the situation.

> There are ***“terrorists based in the United States, whom we have denounced on several occasions, who are encouraging actions that go against the internal order of the country,”*** he added.

I**‘m not suggesting Cuba is without problems- No country is. However the US has meddled in Cuba for as long as I can recall. They have their proxies on the ground in Cuba. As they have their proxies across the Windward Passage in Haiti**

**At my former site, I’d covered news of a man. [US Contractor, Alan Gross. ](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/17/371467076/alan-gross-u-s-contractor-freed-by-cuba-says-its-good-to-be-home)He was caught smuggling communications devices into Cuba for USAID**

> **The former contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development was working on a program to improve Internet access for Jewish Cubans**.  **During several trips to Cuba, he had covertly distributed laptops.** A Cuban court found him guilty of crimes against the state in 2011, and sentenced him to 15 years in prison.

[Link](https://www.american.edu/centers/latin-american-latino-studies/cuba-archive-alan-gross.cfm)

> **Gross’s work, which provided illegal technological infrastructure that allowed for uncensored use of the Internet.**

**The US has provided the technological infrastructure for many destabilization campaigns- Syria really stands out in my mind for this type of aid provision.** **Cuba, too.**