Rare street demonstrations sparked in Havana and other Cuban cities
14 Jul 2021, 08:10 GMT+10
HAVANA, Cuba: In the largest demonstrations in Communist Cuba in decades, thousands of Cubans took to the streets in Havana and other cities on Sunday to call for President Miguel Diaz-Canel to step down, while chanting freedom.
The protests come during Cuba s worst economic crisis since the fall of its ally, the Soviet Union, along with a record surge in coronavirus infections. Those marching voiced anger over shortages of basic goods, curbs on civil liberties and the authorities handling of the pandemic.
Thousands of protesters were seen in the streets in parts of Havana, with their shouts drowning out groups of government supporters waving the Cuban flag and chanting Fidel.
Many Arizonans stand in solidarity with Cuba during food, power crisis
PHOENIX - Protests are erupting all over the country in
support of Cuba, standing in solidarity with Cubans who are facing food shortages and high prices.
Arizona is no exception to where protests are happening.
On Tuesday night, many were at the state capitol in downtown Phoenix holding up signs, some reading, S.O.S. Cuba and Free Cuba.
Julie Chung, the acting assistant secretary for the Department of State s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, on Sunday suggested that the protests were driven by Cuban people exercising their right to peaceful assembly to express concern about rising COVID case/deaths & medicine shortage. We commend the numerous efforts of the Cuban people mobilizing donations to help neighbors.
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I don’t want to be Debbie Democracy Downer, but this Cuban thing is going to go nowhere fast. It’s not what I want. What I want is for every communist to take a chopper header or a lamppost swing as partial retribution for the 60 years of tyranny they have inflicted on a great people. Here’s how bad socialism is – it took a country full of Cubans and made it poor. And those bastards should pay.
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