(Middletown, Conn./WTIC) - Fed up is how one local expert on Cuba describes the mindset of the people on the island protesting unlivable conditions.
The demonstrations that have broken out in recent days haven't been seen in decades.
Middlesex Community College professor of history Dr. Victor Triay says residents have reached the breaking point.
Triay, who has written extensively about Cuba and whose family fled shortly after the late Fidel Castro took power, says basic human rights, unlivable conditions, a lack of food and medicine, and the incompetence of a totalitarian government have left many at their breaking point.
He says citizens want change and are willing to be arrested--or suffer worse--to attain it.
Triay says Castro overthrew the previous government under the promise of a free society, only to break that promise shortly thereafter.