{"id":588649,"date":"2021-07-12T06:51:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T10:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=588649"},"modified":"2021-07-12T06:51:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T10:51:19","slug":"americas-far-left-silent-as-cubans-cry-out-for-freedom-from-communist-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-far-left-silent-as-cubans-cry-out-for-freedom-from-communist-dictatorship\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Far-Left Silent As Cubans Cry Out For Freedom From Communist Dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericas-far-left-silent-as-cubans-cry-out-for-freedom-from-communist-dictatorship%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=588649&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AB-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Top far-left figures in American politics were silent on Sunday as Cubans took to the streets crying out for freedom from the nation\u2019s communist dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>Videos circulated on social media of Cubans marching in the streets, protesting the impoverished conditions of the island and their lack of freedom under the far-left communist regime. They did so while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-cubans-carry-american-flag-while-demanding-freedom-from-communist-dictatorship\">chanting<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cLiberty\u201d and \u201cFreedom\u201d and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-cubans-carry-american-flag-while-demanding-freedom-from-communist-dictatorship\">waving<\/a> an American flag. The communist dictatorship later started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/communist-cuba-begins-cracking-down-on-freedom-protesters-internet-and-cell-service-cut\">cracking down<\/a> on the protests, allegedly inflicting violence on the unarmed protesters and cutting off internet access.<\/p>\n<p>Notable far-left figures that did not weigh in on the matter by the time this report was filed included Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who was described in 2016 by Tom Perez, &nbsp;then-Chairman of the Democrat Party, as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/395436-dnc-chair-ocasio-cortez-represents-the-future-of-our-party\">future<\/a>\u201d of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/gop.com\/the-dnc-kicks-off-with-radical-bernie-sanders-as-headliner-rsr?\">praised<\/a> murderous communist dictators and regimes, including Cuba, as highlighted by Sanders\u2019 political opposition:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13.119549929677\">\n<p><em>Sanders&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/201739406\/?terms=bernard%2Bsanders%2Bcuba%2Bjane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vacationed<\/a>&nbsp;in Cuba and has praised the Cuban revolution saying he was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0oEQRikUDW8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">excited<\/a>&nbsp;to watch Dictator Fidel Castro \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReaganBattalion\/status\/1098633261356630016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1098633261356630016&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2019%2F02%2F25%2Fcandid-camera-breadline-bernie-sanders-decades-long-defense-of-socialism-communism%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rising up against the ugly rich people<\/a>.\u201d Sen. Sanders praised Communist Cuba\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/bernie-sanders-praised-communist-cuba-and-the-soviet-union-in-the-1980s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">value system<\/a>\u201d while he was mayor of Burlington and even&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/the-25-best-things-we-learned-bernie-sanders-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visited Cuba&nbsp;<\/a>to meet with the dictator in 1989.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sanders \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/bernie-sanders-praised-communist-cuba-and-the-soviet-union-in-the-1980s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mocked<\/a>\u201d reports of human rights abuses in Cuba, claiming that the reports of torture and executions were manufactured by Republicans. The Castro regime\u2019s human right abuses are extensive and have been widely reported, including the sentencing of homosexuals and critics to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/26\/world\/americas\/fidel-castro-dies.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forced labor camps&nbsp;<\/a>, and forcing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/nov\/27\/fidel-castro-dictator-legacy-abuses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than a million&nbsp;<\/a>Cubans to risk drowning as they fled the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/19\/politics\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-endorses-bernie-sanders\/index.html\">endorsed<\/a> Sanders for president in 2020 when he ran as a Democrat for the second time and subsequently lost again. While on the campaign trail, AOC displayed a cultish-like obsession for Sanders, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/1189892911745445888\">saying<\/a> she didn\u2019t \u201crecognize [her] inherent value as a human being\u201d until she \u201cheard of\u201d Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/07\/11\/cuba-protests\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><em>Jos\u00e9 Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch\u2019s Americas division, said his group had received reports that at least 20 people had been arrested. He added that the organization had received reports of violence being used by Cuban forces, a claim echoed by social media users sharing videos of wounded protesters.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is pretty massive,\u201d Vivanco said. \u201cMy sense is that this is a combination of social unrest based on a lack of freedoms, and covid, and economic conditions. The lack of access to electricity. The blackouts. \u2026 People are screaming for freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs demonstrators sought to broadcast the protest live with their cellphones through social media, Cuba\u2019s authorities cut internet service on multiple occasions on Sunday,\u201d The Wall Street Journal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/cuban-protests-demand-freedom-food-covid-19-vaccines-11626045095\">reported<\/a>. \u201cKentik, a U.S.-based network monitoring company, reported countrywide internet outages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top far-left figures in American politics were silent on Sunday as Cubans took to the streets crying out for freedom from the nation\u2019s communist dictatorship.Videos circulated on social media of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314458,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AB-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"America\u2019s Far-Left Silent As Cubans Cry Out For Freedom From Communist Dictatorship","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AB-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"America\u2019s Far-Left Silent As Cubans Cry Out For Freedom From Communist Dictatorship","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}