Five arrested in Cuba after protest at local Communist party office

Five people were arrested in Moron, Cuba, after a protest at a local Communist party office escalated into vandalism. Protesters ransacked the office, setting fire to computers and furniture in the street, and also damaged a pharmacy and another shop. The incident follows growing discontent in Cuba due to shortages of food, medicine, and frequent power outages, with nightly protests spreading across the country. These issues are exacerbated by a US oil blockade, which Cuba's president blames for the lack of petroleum shipments in the past three months. The US president has openly expressed his desire for regime change in Cuba and has placed the island under an oil blockade, citing it as an "extraordinary threat" to the US.

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