By Pietro Del Re
(La Repubblica)
"
Cuidado, hay chivatones
", watch out for snitches, informants, warns Juan, his eyes shining with anger and his voice harsh. On Sunday July 11, he was one of the first, along with hundreds of others, to challenge the Cuban government by marching through the streets of San Antonio de los Baños and chanting slogans like "
freedom
" and "
to down with the dictatorship
”. From there, mainly through social media, the protests spread to many other centers on the Caribbean island, including rural areas, where the Communist Party has always enjoyed strong support.
Located half an hour from Havana, the city is surrounded by fields of particularly fertile land, but mostly unexploited, because as Juan explains when he cuts the engine of his prehistoric tractor, there is no no seeds, no fertilizers, no tools to work it.
"
It is pure chance that the revolt started in our
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