Well-known dissidents and civil-rights activists are among those detained by Cuban authorities in the aftermath of unprecedented nationwide protests that shook Cuba Sunday.
Thousands of Cuban citizens took to the streets across the country for the first time in more than six decades to protest against deteriorating living conditions, and the lack of basic goods and services, including medical attention amid a sharp rise in the number of coronavirus infections.
The government is grappling with the worst economic crisis in 30 years, which has resulted in acute shortages of food, fuel and medicine.
The protests were unprecedented in a country with tight police control and constant surveillance on dissidents.
On Sunday, President Miguel Díaz-Canel urged supporters to take back the streets and other public places from demonstrators, whose unprecedented wave of protests shook the communist island on Sunday.
Mr. Díaz-Canel blamed the U.S. embargo for the protests.
“We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba’s authoritarian regime,” Mr. Biden said Monday.
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