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How Social Media Gave Cuban Protesters a Voice
Voice of America
23 Jul 2021, 07:35 GMT+10
MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA - When thousands of Cubans took to the streets to protest this month, their calls for freedom and an end of the dictatorship were heard across the world, thanks to the rise in social media.
In the town of San Antonio de los Banos, 20 kilometers southwest of the capital, Havana, residents gathered on July 11 to protest the shortage of basic products and medicine. Their calls were shared via Facebook Live in broadcasts known on the island as direct.
The images revealed an unprecedented crowd, replicated in at least 20 towns and cities throughout the island.
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Cuban journalists covering the most serious protests against the communist government in decades have been arrested, subjected to police surveillance and intimidated by the authorities.
At least 47 journalists have been arrested, according to the Cuban Institute for the Freedom of Expression and the Press (ICLEP), an organization that supports opposition media on the island.
When VOA spoke with its executive director, Normando Hernández González, on July 15, he said he had just heard of the arrest of another journalist and wanted to get the news out as soon as possible.
U.S. Hands off Cuba! End the Blockade!
During his press meeting on Monday, President Biden claimed to support the people of Cuba, some of whom have protested in recent days. But the U.S. maintains a blockade of the country that denies the people food, medicine, fuel and trade with other countries. It is this economic hardship, imposed by U.S. policy which is the reason for the protest. At the same time that Biden and the U.S. government cry crocodile tears for the Cuban people, they are strangling them to death with the blockade. Yet, we did not hear a peep from Biden during the months of protest by the Haitian people demanding that the U.S puppet Jovenel Moise leave office when his term ended, or when the Colombian people flooded their streets demanding their democratic rights from the right-wing, U.S. supported government of Ivan Duque.