The Voice of America report on the Sunday protest did not use the word “Communist” or “dictatorship” in regard to the Cuban regime. Saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera defected in 1981 but it was ten years before the Castro regime would allow his family to join him. Fidel Castro called American jazz the “music of the enemy” and jailed trumpeter Arturo Sandoval for listening to the Voice of America. As Orlando Jimenez-Leal showed in 8-A, Castro held a show-trial for General Arnaldo Ochoa and fellow officers, all executed.

As Chung explained, “Peaceful protests are growing in #Cuba as the Cuban people exercise their right to peaceful assembly to express concern about rising COVID cases/deaths & medicine shortages.” The protesting Cubans, yearning to breathe free, might wonder what Chung is talking about.Īs Nestor Almendros documented in Improper Conduct, Fidel Castro banished homosexuals to forced labor camps.

Rubio was referencing a statement by Julie Chung, acting assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Marco Rubio, “not ‘expressing concern about rising COVID-19 cases/deaths.’ Why is it so hard for & the people in his administration to say that?” “People in Cuba are protesting 62 years of socialism, lies, tyranny & misery,” tweeted Sen. On Sunday, thousands of Cubans chanted “Freedom!” “Enough!” and “We want liberty!” as they marched on Havana’s Malecon promenade.

Somebody should tell Cuban protesters that the US flag they’re waving no longer stands for what they think it does.

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