standing up against the oppressive murdering communist regime of the castros. our own sara carter, she s on the ground, she is in miami. another big crowd tonight. and all day as well. wright, sean. it s been like this in miami all day. i don t even know if you can hear behind me, but people are screaming, it means freedom, it means intervention. in cuba they are asking the by demonstration to intervene. this has gone on from tropical park all the way to here in front of the iconic cafe versailles, but let me tell you this, i had interviewed today which is probably one of the most famous given americans, a former cia paramilitary officer who actually participated in the bay of pigs and was one of the last people to actually see and speak to che guevara before he was killed. listen to what he had to say on the warning he has for americans. you have a perspective that
is going back to obama the answer now? it wasn t clear that what we did then made a big difference. i m not sure what it means to engage the cuban people in a country which is tightly controlled by the government. i would actually say what we should think about is offering to reduce certain sanctions in exchange for specific reforms, be it about cuban foreign policy. t not clear why they need to have thousands of their intelligence people in a place like venezuela or domestic economic and political reforms. we already give them food and medicine. that s not the issue. it s other types of constraints on currency and the like. so i would basically have that approach. beyond that, i think it s what we say and it s really going to be a dynamic inside cuba. you worked across several administrations in the past, and you ve washed the issues for a long time. the castros are gone, but the conversations about cuba, carrots and sticks, sanctions,
history of the castro brothers dictatorship that is now being managed by the designated successor, cuba s president. a 43-year-old woman in havana told the new york times , people are fed up with the abuse of power. we are desperate. president biden issued a statement saying, 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. cuba refused to request international shipments of covid vaccine from the world health organization, but it has developed its own covid vaccine. as of now, only 15% of cubans have been vaccinated. the president of cuba, like the castros before him, blames all of cuba s problems on this country s 60-year-old trade
say, make cuba an issue, a cause. this is a brutal dictatorship 90 miles from our shore. it s been going on since 1959, new year s day. they ve had 62 years, the chinese dictatorship, that dictatorship in beijing had 72. the soviets had 74. i was looking this up. the assads have been in power for 51 years. i mean, enough. cuba ought to be an issue, a cause. these people are suffering terribly. the soviet union expired a long time ago, 1991. yet this one client state presses on. the castros have now departed the scene, although raul is still breathing, he relinquished the reins in april. can this dictatorship survive the passing? i hope not. thank you so much as always. we greatly appreciate you and
try to blackmail the united states by threatening to send a lot of its citizens to south florida. harris: thank you very much. byron donalds, republican congressman from florida is in the faulkner focus now. good to see you, congressman. first of all, what is the effect of silence or the omission of a word like communism when the white house responds if and when they do to the protesting that s going on for freedom in cuba? that only goes to support the regime that has been in power for more than 60 years in cuba. it is high time the united states takes this seriously and that we do everything we can to unwind this regime. let s be very clear. the castro regime only empowered the castros and people loyal to them and the military loyal to them. the people have continuously suffered for the last second decades. time to bring it to an end. calling communism communism is something we should be doing whether the president of the united states or whether it s