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Caribbean-Latin America
Biden administration ridiculed for claiming extraordinary Cuban street protests have been sparked by Covid
2021-07-13
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Miami Mayor Francis Suarez called on Biden administration to send troops to Cuba amid unrest on the island

  • 'Cubans are worthy and ready to rule themselves without tyranny,' Suarez said on Sunday

  • Thousands took to streets Sunday to denounce Communist government for its handling of economy, COVID

  • People in Cuba are voicing anger over shortages of basic goods and curbs on civil liberties

  • US State Department was slammed for suggesting the protests were over 'rising COVID cases/deaths'

  • President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who heads the Communist Party, blamed US for the unrest in televised speech

  • The protests broke out in San Antonio de los Banos municipality in Artemisa Province, bordering Havana

  • Hundreds of residents chanted anti-government slogans and demanded vaccines, end to daily blackouts
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Posted by:Fred

#11  I Had That !

Went to the doctor, he looked at it, gave me some stuff... in a tube....

Ergo .... cleared up, just like that...
Posted by: Crolet Hupaish7667   2021-07-13 20:21  

#10  Pres. Juvie-Sniffer could not be allowed to call the Cuban political prisoners-in-waiting "Insurrectionists," now, could he?

Nor could his handlers allow him to attribute the protests to reaction against an illegitimate and unpopular government.

Ergo, the space between rock and hard-place is called "The Covid."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2021-07-13 19:58  

#9  Cubans got fed up with the failures of Marxism and Communism.

Well, hell! I was so sure they would finally get communism right this time.

I don't want to be a Negative Nancy, but if you can't get something working after trying for a hundred years, maybe, just maybe, your initial assumptions are wrong. I recommend iterating faster like we do in the engineering world when we are "exploring the solution space". Think Elon Musk blowing up rockets right and left and ending up with cheap commercial space transport vs Virgin Galactic's recent spam-in-a-can flight. Revolt early, revolt often!
Posted by: SteveS   2021-07-13 19:07  

#8  Cubans got fed up with the failures of Marxism and Communism.
Posted by: JohnQC   2021-07-13 17:20  

#7  And crooks as well.
Posted by: JohnQC   2021-07-13 17:00  

#6  The Cubans realized they had morons and imbeciles in charge too?
Posted by: JohnQC   2021-07-13 16:59  

#5  Cuba protests: Internet sheds light on anger - until it goes dark
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-07-13 13:23  

#4  EXCLUSIVE: 'We are asking President Biden to protect the Cuban people from a bloodbath.' Havana-born leader of exiles group in Miami warns of looming 'massacre' if U.S. does not 'take the lead' in fight for freedom
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-07-13 13:04  

#3  What is it about these protests that "The Biden" administration first poo-poos as a Covid dance, then Trump's Fault?

Must be some serious Anti-Commie movement going on.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-07-13 11:11  

#2  I stumped my toe last night. Is there a way for me to get covid relief money for that?
Posted by: Chris   2021-07-13 10:56  

#1  Cuba's president blames America's 'politics of economic asphyxiation' for unrest after massive anti-communist protest
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-07-13 09:18  

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