Maleconazo

Also known as August 1994 protest in Cuba, 1994 Cuban protests, Habanazo, I lived in Cuba since November 1993 until July 1995, managing the Havana Riviera hotel through an international deal between the Cuban government and and Spanish corporation Kawama Caribbean Hotels. I was at the malecón during the protests, they assa

The '''''' was a protest on 5 August 1994, in which thousands of Cubans took to the streets around the Malecón in Havana to demand freedom and express frustration with the government. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba fell into a crippling economic crisis that had many citizens looking to flee the island. On the day of the protest, the Cuban police blocked people from boarding tugboats leaving Havana, prompting thousands of citizens to storm the streets in the largest anti-government demonstration Cuba had seen since the Cuban Revolution. In the following week