With many homes across the country without electricity or water for four days, residents of Havana blocked some of the city’s main avenues and banged pots and pans on Saturday, the third day of demonstrations following the collapse of the electrical grid after hurricane Ian battered the island early this week.
On Saturday morning, women banged pots and stopped traffic in Calzada del Cerro, one of the city’s central avenues. Another group blocked a street in the opposite side of the city, in Guanabacoa.
Amid the unrest, a Wall Street Journal report that the island’s authorities have asked the Biden administration for assistance to help respond to the devastation left by Hurricane Ian in western Cuba has further unnerved activists and Cuban exiles, who fear any aid channeled through the government would allow it to contain the largest protests since July last year without making the political changes many Cubans desire.
