August 5th, 1994 Protest
Hundreds of Cubans protested in Havana on August 5, 1994, some chanting "Libertad!" ("Freedom"). The protest, in which some threw rocks at police, was dispersed by the police after a few hours. A paper published in the Journal of Democracy argues that this was the closest that the Cuban opposition could come to asserting itself decisively.
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