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a worsening covid outbreak. cnn's patrick oppmann is live in cuba with the latest. patrick, the cuban government responding by cracking down on protests, blocking the internet and staging pro-revolutionary protests, right? >> reporter: absolutely. good morning, boris and amara. what we're seeing down the street from the u.s. embassy in havana is something we really haven't seen in years. it's a large pro government demonstration, obviously a show of force, a response to those historic protests that we've seen earlier in the week. and you have cuban president miguel diaz as well as fidel castro who retired in april. let me tell you how this works. the majority of this island works for the government. and they are told when and where to be. they are picked up by hundreds of buses. they're using lots of gasoline. that the cuban government really doesn't have right now, to take in tens of thousands of people