Protesters attacked a Communist Party building in the central Cuban city of Morón over the weekend, a rare escalation of unrest in a country where public dissent is tightly controlled. Demonstrators threw stones at the local party headquarters, entered the building and set furniture on fire, according to reporting by The New York Times.
The incident began late Friday as a peaceful gathering of several hundred people protesting prolonged power outages and shortages of food and fuel. Protesters marched through the city banging pots and pans and shining cellphone flashlights during a blackout that had left many homes without electricity for more than a day.
