# Díaz-Canel gives a televised combat order as 11 July protests spread

Date: 2021

## The fact

On 11 July 2021 Cubans protested in Havana and other cities over shortages, blackouts, and COVID-era scarcity. President and first secretary [Miguel Díaz-Canel](/people/miguel-diaz-canel) said on television that the order of combat had been given and called revolutionaries into the streets. Reuters recorded the rare nationwide demonstrations. HRW documented repression of the protests. Independent monitors recorded internet disruption the same day. Prisoner stocks are contested and are not invented here.

## Context

He had been first secretary since 19 April 2021. Raúl Castro is unresolved. He did not sit as every arresting officer.

19 April 2021 succession is parent. Ley 151 is a later child. Keep Díaz-Canel gives a televised combat order as 11 July protests spread on 2021-07-11 separate from neighbouring 19 April 2021 first-secretary succession, 11 July 2021 combat order, Ley 151 of 2022, and 13 October 2023 ANPP re-election.

The president of Cuba and first secretary of the PCC heads the state and the party. He can give a televised combat order and promulgate a penal code. He does not sit as every municipal policeman, as ETECSA’s NOC, or as an OFAC licensing officer. Raúl Castro is named as an unresolved person candidate.

## Evidence and sources

Presidency of the Republic of Cuba carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is 11J repression: a completed combat order against protesters, remaining prisoner-stock contests as neighbours.

## What is established and what is not

Established: He gave a televised combat order on 11 July 2021 as protests spread; HRW recorded the crackdown; connectivity was disrupted.

Not established: A unique 11J death total, or a unique Prisoners Defenders integer as Contribution.size.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

MININT and municipal police implemented. ETECSA sat on connectivity.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Díaz-Canel gives a televised combat order as 11 July protests spread, not a later speech about Díaz-Canel gives a televised combat order as 11 July protests spread.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Díaz-Canel gives a televised combat order as 11 July protests spread on 2021-07-11 is not a licence to treat every later Presidency of the Republic of Cuba communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Díaz-Canel gives a televised combat order as 11 July protests spread into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He spoke the order as president and first secretary. MININT and municipal police implemented. ETECSA sat on connectivity. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Miguel Díaz-Canel: https://factrail.ai/people/miguel-diaz-canel

## Drivers

- Civic Space: https://factrail.ai/drivers/civic-space
- Díaz-Canel July 2021 repression and speech crimes: https://factrail.ai/drivers/diaz-canel-july-2021-repression

## Sources

- https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/07/14/cuba-responds-landmark-demonstrations-brutal-repression
- https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cubans-take-streets-rare-protests-against-government-2021-07-11/
- https://www.presidencia.gob.cu/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cu-diaz-canel-11j-2021