Cubans ransack, set fire at Communist Party headquarters

Protesters ransacked and set fire outside a local Communist Party headquarters in Morón, Cuba early Saturday morning, videos posted to social media show.

Citizens of the north-central Cuban city protested rampant blackouts as well as energy and food shortages under the leadership of communist President Miguel Díaz-Canel. Protestors threw rocks at a government building’s windows and set its furniture ablaze in the street amid chants of, “Liberty!” Reuters reported. Authorities stated they arrested five participants of an anti-communist demonstration as state-run media reported an investigation into “vandalism acts” was launched, according to The Associated Press (AP).

In a video posted to Facebook by Radar Africa, a crowd of people appears to loudly cheer and make noise with percussive instruments as a large fire burns outside the headquarters’s entrance.

Cuban-born Republican Florida Rep. Carlos Giménez posted a video of the fiery protest to X early Saturday, writing, “The Cuban people have had enough of the brutal dictatorship!”

BREAKING —> The people of #Cuba have just set fire to the Communist Party’s Headquarters in the eastern town of #Morón.

The Cuban people have had enough of the brutal dictatorship! pic.twitter.com/q9j6unDFh3

— Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (@RepCarlos) March 14, 2026

Giménez fled the island country with his family at the age of six, the year after Fidel Castro’s 1959 victory in the Cuban Revolution.

Fellow Cuban-American Republican Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar also shared a video of protests in the communist-controlled nation Saturday morning.

“The Cuban people do not want continuity, they want LIBERTY,” Salazar wrote on X in Spanish, adding the hashtag “#SOSCUBA.” The congresswoman, known for her vocal opposition to communism, was born in Miami to Cuban exiles.

Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Thursday — days before the protest in Morón — that the country’s government plans to release dozens of prisoners as “goodwill,” citing the “close and fluid relations between the Cuban state and the Vatican.” The move came shortly after the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump considered a full naval blockade against Cuba to restrict the island from receiving oil.

While addressing a dozen Latin American leaders in South Florida on March 7, Trump declared the Cuban regime was “in its last moments of life.”

“Cuba’s at the end of the line, they’re very much at the end of the line. They have no money, they have no oil. They have a bad philosophy, they have a bad regime that’s been bad for a long time,” the president said during his speech at the first-ever Shield of the Americas Summit. Trump also noted Cuba used to get money and oil from Venezuela before he spearheaded the capture and extradition of its socialist dictator, Nicolás Maduro, by U.S. law enforcement.

Díaz-Canel‘s government confirmed it has been talking with the Trump administration, multiple sources reported Friday.

Cuban-born pop star Camila Cabello made headlines when she spoke out against the communist dictatorship ruling her birth country, denouncing it as a “a failing dictatorship and an oppressive regime” in a late February X post.

“The Cuban people are suffering in an echo chamber where no one can hear them because to speak is to risk your life,” wrote Cabello, an American citizen since childhood living in Miami. “Many people are starving, looking for food in trash heaps, and the only way to survive is having relatives ship you boxes of medicine because not even the hospitals have medicine.”

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