July 11, 2021Events

On Sunday July 11, 2021, a large group of people took the streets on San Antonio de los Baños a province of Havana the capital, to protest, chanting “Freedom”, “Homeland & Life”, and “We are not afraid”.

map of Cuba showing the different places of protests reported on july 11, 2021

Within hours, more groups of people also joined the protests in additional provinces of Cuba.

Such as Camaguey...

Las Tunas

Ciego de Avila

Pinar del Rio...and many more

In the blink of an eye, different protests were happening at the same time in more than 91 places on the island...

map of Cuba showing the different places of protests reported on july 11, 2021

A detailed google map project with the locations of the protests can be found here.

The majority of the protests -if not all- were peacefully initiated. No one in Cuba -by law- is allowed to carry firearms or any other type of weapon. To be accurate, it's no one except

the government, military personnel, and the national police.