Bay Area activists take fight for Cuba to Washington as Biden imposes new sanctions
By Evan Axelbank
Evan Axelbank reports
TAMPA, Fla. - Alian Collazo came to Florida on a raft from Cuba at the age of eight. On Monday, he will voyage from Largo to Washington to exercise a right family still in Cuba don't have: The right to demonstrate. He will protest on behalf of the Cuban people.
"They have been yelling 'liberated' which means freedom," he said. "'Abajo la dictatura.' Down with the dictatorship."
On Thursday, the Biden administration announced new sanctions Thursday against a Cuban official and a government special brigade that it says was involved in human rights abuses during a government crackdown on protests on the island earlier this month.