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July 12, 2021

Thousands Take to Streets of Cuba to Protest Economic Crisis, Pandemic
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In Cuba, thousands of people took to the streets of Havana and other
cities in rare anti-government protests, denouncing the island's
economic crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cuba is facing its
harshest phase of the pandemic with skyrocketing infections. The island
set a new record Sunday with over 6,900 positive cases. People are
scrambling to cope amid shortages of medicine, food and other resources
due to catastrophic U.S. sanctions. Thousands of others led
counterprotests Sunday in support of the Cuban revolution and President
Miguel Díaz-Canel, who accused the U.S. of instigating anti-government
protests on the island and urged the Biden administration to lift the
blockade.


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