While the international media tried its best to characterize the massive protests in Cuba this past weekend as being about food and not politics, Cubans remind them that hunger is indeed political. The hunger, misery, and poverty Cubans suffer is solely the product of politics, socialist politics.

Via Diario de Cuba:

‘There’s nothing more political than hunger.’ Intellectuals and artists react to the protests in Cuba

After the protests this Sunday in Santiago de Cuba and other cities in the country, which triggered frays over the course of Monday and Tuesday, prompting major police deployments on Cuban streets, there have been several intellectuals and artists have spoken out on social media.

Through a live broadcast on the Facebook profile of the organization Cuba X Cuba, historian Alina Bárbara López Hernández asked the Government “to understand the gravity of what is happening in the country, and to assume its responsibilities, which is a substantial part of the current situation, and to avoid, by every means possible, crackdowns on people who are demonstrating peacefully.”