Protests, even small ones, rarely happen in Cuba. The reason has nothing to do with popular contentment and everything to do with the law.
Over the past six decades most Cubans have made the entirely rational calculation that open criticism of their government is too dangerous. It is not worth it.
The Cuban constitution, based on a Soviet blueprint, contains a draconian warning. It spells out that no behaviour, no freedom, will be tolerated if it is deemed “contrary to the existence and objectives of the socialist state, or contrary to the decision of the Cuban people to build socialism and communism”.
That is a catch-all and means that being considered “counter-revolutionary” is tantamount to being a criminal. Being a revolutionary, in contrast, is aligned
