Cuban President and the General Secretary of the Communist Party, Miguel Díaz-Canel has requested Cubans do not fell into the American trap while accepting criticisms of not being able to handle the crisis as it should have been.
In a televised address on Wednesday, he requested people not to act with hate referring to violence that killed one demonstrator.
The last time when protests happened in Cuba, the then-President Fidel Castro had himself came down into the streets and requested Cubans to act with patience. The then-protests had resulted due to the crisis that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, which was the only major trading partner to Cuba amid the US Embargo.
“We have to gain experience from the disturbances," Diaz-Canal said. “We also have to carry out a critical analysis of our problems to act and overcome, and avoid their repetition.”
“Our society is not a society that generates hatred and those people acted with hatred," he said. “The feeling of Cubans is a feeling of solidarity and these people carried out these armed acts, with vandalism ... yelling for deaths ... planning to raid public places, breaking, robbing, throwing stones.”
The protests on Cuba have mainly been about the lack of vaccination and lack of food supplies, which the country has not been able to maintain due to the US Embargo and sanctions that make essentials difficult to reach the island nation.
However, some protestors were protesting with US flags asking for the change of system, which got a larger response from the Cuban revolutionaries, who backed the Communist-Party led government to not surrender with the States.