Dramatic footage appears to show protester on the ground after alleged gunfire as crowds attack Communist Party building in Cuba, chanting 'Freedom!' amid crisis.

A rally against power cuts and food shortages appeared to begin peacefully in the city of Moron before turning violent in the early Saturday morning, a state-run newspaper reported.

A group of residents of a city in central Cuba have taken to the streets and partially destroyed the local headquarters of the ruling communist party.

Several exile organizations announced Monday there will be a gathering in Miami on March 21 to demand the right of Cubans abroad to return to Cuba and for the U.S. government to allow them to take a boat from Miami carrying aid for dissidents on the island.

Cuba has grappled with blackouts, fuel shortages and scarce food supplies as the U.S. blocks oil deliveries to the island.

Miami, speaks during a press conference about developments in Cuba at the Fairways Restaurant at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Fla., on Monday, March 16, 2026. Gimenez addressed nationwide protests in Cuba,

Videos on socia media show residents walking and at times running through the streets of Morón, in the province of Ciego de Avila, shouting anti-government slogans in the middle of a blackout late night Friday and early morning Saturday,

Cuba is open to having a fluid commercial relationship with U.S. companies" and "also with Cubans residing in the United States and their descendants," Deputy Prime Minister Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga said in an interview in Havana.

Anti-government protesters attacked a Communist Party office in central Cuba early on Saturday, a state-run newspaper reported, in a rare outburst of public dissent triggered by blackouts exacerbated

Moron, a city on Cuba's northern coast, was also site of significant protests during anti-govt riots in July 2021, the largest since Castro's 1959 revolution | World News