Cuba Warns Against Protests as It Struggles to Restore Power
- President says dissent won’t be tolerated amid energy crisis
- Electricity starts to return in Havana after 72-hour blackout
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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel warned citizens there would be consequences for taking to the streets as many on the island were still without power after more than 72 hours.
Diaz-Canel, in a statement published Monday after sporadic protests broke out over the weekend, said the government “will not tolerate this type of conduct” and that demonstrators “will be processed rigorously under our revolutionary law.”