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Discontent is mounting over rolling blackouts and shortages of food, fuel and medicine, exacerbated by a US blockade.
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Five people were arrested after a small group vandalised the offices in the central city of Moron overnight into Saturday, Cuba's Interior Ministry (Minint) said.
Discontent among Cubans has been mounting as the island is buffeted by rolling blackouts and shortages of food, fuel and medicine, exacerbated by a prolonged US oil blockade.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said that, while the protesters' complaints and demands were "legitimate", "violence and vandalism that threatens citizen tranquility" would not be tolerated.
He wrote on X that the prolonged blackouts had understandably caused "distress", blaming them on the US blockade that he characterised as having "cruelly intensified in recent months".
The protest came hours after the government in Havana confirmed that talks with the US to "seek solutions through dialogue" to the two countries' differences were under way.
Díaz-Canel said in a national broadcast on Friday that no fuel had entered the country in three months as a result of the US oil blockade.
US President Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire for a change in Cuba's leadership. He said on Monday that Cuba was in "deep trouble" as he threatened a "friendly takeover".
Trump previously said the one-party state would be "next" following the capture of its ally, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in January.
Since then, the US has blocked Venezuelan oil shipments - which provided for about half of Cuba's energy needs - and threatened to impose tariffs on any country that sold oil to the island nation. This is on top of a six-decade US trade embargo.
Havana relies heavily on imported fuel for electricity generation, and the oil blockade has brought Cuba's beleaguered economy close to collapse.
The crisis has affected rubbish collection, emergency hospital wards, public transport a
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