Observatorio Cubano de Conflictos

The Observatorio Cubano de Conflictos (OCC) is a Cuban civil-society monitoring organisation that tracks protests, public denunciations, and civic challenges to state authority inside Cuba. It is distinct from the Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos (OCDH), the Madrid-based human rights monitor that publishes monthly repressive-action tallies; the OCC focuses specifically on protest and social conflict data. In April 2026, the OCC logged 1,133 protests and denunciations, of which 305 were characterised as direct challenges to state authority, a figure cited in this briefing update.

The OCC's methodology counts social-media posts, on-island witness reports, and documented incidents to produce conflict-volume statistics. Its work feeds into the broader Cuba human rights monitoring ecosystem alongside OCDH, Prisoners Defenders, and Cubalex. The OCC's protest count for April represents an intensification relative to the post-amnesty period the Cuban government had framed as 'indulgence'.

Because the OCC operates in opposition to the Cuban state, its figures are disputed by Havana and treated by international observers as requiring corroboration from independent sources. However, its protest counts have been consistent with broader civic unrest signals and have not been methodologically challenged by the wire services that cite them.