Cuban exile community in US keeping watchful eye on protests in Cuba
Newsy
Large crowds gathered in cities in Cuba to protest a dwindling supply of food and fuel on an island where electricity blackouts are now commonplace.
The grainy and often shaky cellphone videos, posted on social media, paint part of the picture of what's going on inside of Cuba.
This past week, large crowds gathered in several cities to protest a dwindling supply of food and fuel, on an island where electricity blackouts are now commonplace. Such protests are rare.
"There is no economic freedom. There is no political freedom. There's nothing in Cuba," said Janisset Rivero with the Center for a Free Cuba, a nonprofit group of Cuban exiles pushing for regime change on the island.
Rivero migrated to Miami in the early 1990s and still has family in Cuba.
"When I left the island, I couldn't see them again," she said. "So, I miss my family — the family I left there."
