Cuban President brands EU statement as slanderous plenglish.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from plenglish.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
After historic protests, defiant Cubans face mass trials
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By Patrick Oppmann, CNN
Following the most widespread protests since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution, Cubans are now bracing themselves for a new aftershock poised to shake the communist-run island: Mass trials of those who dared to take to the streets calling for change.
Fewer than three weeks since the beginning of the unprecedented anti-government demonstrations, the trials are already underway. Not surprisingly, those proceedings are leading to swift convictions.
Photographer Anyelo Troya said he was running errands when thousands of Cubans streamed into the streets of Havana this month, many chanting “liberty” and “homeland and life,” a reference to a viral anti-government song. Troya, who had already drawn the ire of Cuban officials for filming part of the music video for that searing opposition anthem, rushed to the protests carrying his camera.
Cuba expresses gratitude to Vietnam for rice donation plenglish.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from plenglish.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Cuban Foreign Ministry denounces embassy siege in Washington
Cuban Foreign Ministry denounces embassy siege in Washington
Havana, Jul 27 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced today the siege of the embassy of the Caribbean nation in the United States, the same one that suffered a terrorist attack last year.
In its Twitter account, the Foreign Minister alluded to the posters placed on the perimeter of its diplomatic headquarters in Washington DC, many of which contain hateful messages, according to photos shared on the social network.
The tweet also recalled that the Cuban mission in North American territory was victim in April 2020 of an attack, on which the United States Government did not issue any statement of condemnation.
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SO MUCH FOR OUR HOT VAX SUMMER America’s official return to pre-Covid life lasted all of three weeks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly reversed its guidance on mask wearing today. The agency now says that vaccinated people in Covid-19 hotspots should mask up indoors, and sometimes even outdoors, based on new data on the highly contagious Delta variant.