Cuba Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

A source of weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Cuba, produced by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is organized into country-year and country-month summaries to track conflict trends over time. It was last updated in March 2026 and is delivered in XLSX format.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political instability using country-month event counts
• Comparing annual demonstration frequencies to identify periods of heightened civil unrest
• Assessing the proportion of civilian-targeting events relative to total reported political violence

Strengths

• Produced by ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict data collection
• Weekly update frequency ensures current monitoring of political stability
• Categorizes events into specific types such as civilian-targeting and demonstrations

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents geospatial mapping or micro-level incident analysis
• Full event details are gated behind a mandatory registration on the ACLED website
• Geographic scope is limited strictly to Cuba

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Freshness

Updated weekly.

Geography

Cuba