Cubans weary of being treated like animals without rights took to the streets, shouting "Freedom!" "Down with the dictatorship," and, most pointedly, "Down with communism!" In some cases, protesters carried American flags.
A State Department spokesperson styled it as Cubans "Exercising their right to peaceful assembly about rising COVID cases/deaths & medicine shortages."
To begin with, Cubans don't have a "Right to peaceful assembly," nor any other real enforceable rights.
The Cuban people have lived under perpetual threat of actual violence committed by the Communist regime for 62 years.
Videos of average Cubans standing in front of Communist Party headquarters, chanting "Cuba isn't yours" and calling for President Miguel Diaz-Canel to step down, shows they aren't afraid.
"We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba's authoritarian regime," Joe Biden said.
"The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights."
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/07/13/cuba-the-collapse-of-another-socialist-utopia-lets-hope-so/
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