PUBLISHED 6:50 AM ET Jul. 20, 2021 PUBLISHED 6:50 AM EDT Jul. 20, 2021
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PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. A Pinellas County man is taking the SOS Cuba message to Washington D.C. next week on a day that means a lot to the Cuban government.
Allan Collazo is with a group organizing the Cuban Freedom March on July 26. They plan to meet in front of the White House and march to the Cuban embassy.
They plan to take what they’ve learned and what they’ve heard from the people of Cuba, to American lawmakers.
“The administration, I think the message we’re trying to send to them, is look, we live in a realistic world, we’re not asking for military intervention or anything out of the ordinary,” Collazo said. “What we’re asking is to have solidarity with the Cuban people. Letting the Cuban regime know that what they’re doing is wrong and the U.S. is watching and there will be no impunity given for those to kill the
The World Health Organization s leader laid out plans for a follow-up investigation into COVID-19 s origins, including the possibility it may have escaped from a Chinese lab, following a widely panned WHO-China joint study that deemed a Wuhan lab leak extremely unlikely.
The first WHO team s visit to Wuhan earlier this year essentially dismissed the lab leak hypothesis while contending that a jump from animals to animals to humans was most likely. The report was widely considered a failure, in part due to a lack of access to key data and Chinese influence over the investigation. Meeting minutes from discussions between lab scientists and the WHO-China team reveal lab leak concerns were referred to as conspiracy theories.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee discussing how to help the people on the island.
Jose Miguel Vivanco, director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch, says it s time to lift the embargo.
Miami Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar disagrees, arguing that restoring internet access is vital.
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James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
12:14 P.M. EDT
MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Good morning. All right. Exciting day today. Oh, afternoon sorry. We’re a little a little delayed, given all of the events.
A couple of items for all of you at the top. Today marks six months under President Biden’s since President Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States. Time flies when we’re having fun. Right, everyone? (Laughter.) Okay.
And this afternoon, he’ll be holding his second meeting with the full Cabinet. This meeting will be the first to take place in the Cabinet Room, and the President will discuss several important topics with Cabinet members, including COVID-19, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework and the Build Back Better agenda, climate, and a national security update following up from the Europe trip, and our latest cybersecurity efforts. So, a robust agenda.