{"id":588705,"date":"2021-07-12T09:06:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T13:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=588705"},"modified":"2021-07-12T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T13:06:09","slug":"stop-playing-cover-for-communists-crenshaw-levels-biden-state-dept-for-false-cuba-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stop-playing-cover-for-communists-crenshaw-levels-biden-state-dept-for-false-cuba-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop Playing Cover For Communists\u2019: Crenshaw Levels Biden State Dept. For False Cuba Narrative"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fstop-playing-cover-for-communists-crenshaw-levels-biden-state-dept-for-false-cuba-narrative%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=588705&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\/GettyImages-1228560628.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Sunday after a State Department official described the heroic Cuban protests against the tyrannical communist government as the people \u201cexpressing their right to peaceful assembly\u201d to \u201cexpress concern about rising COVID cases\/deaths &amp; medicine shortages,\u201d Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) blasted her, firing, \u201cStop playing cover for communists and support the Cuban people. My god. Why is that so hard for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julie Chung, Acting Assistant Secretary for U.S. Department of State\u2019s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, tweeted, \u201cPeaceful protests are growing in #Cuba as the Cuban people exercise their right to peaceful assembly to express concern about rising COVID cases\/deaths &amp; medicine shortages. We commend the numerous efforts of the Cuban people mobilizing donations to help neighbors in need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crenshaw noted, \u201cNo they\u2019re chanting LIBERTAD.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.4039408866995\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No they\u2019re chanting LIBERTAD. Stop playing cover for communists and support the Cuban people. My god. Why is that so hard for you. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gdJ3dC9SOl\">https:\/\/t.co\/gdJ3dC9SOl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanCrenshawTX\/status\/1414407410748469250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/street-protests-break-out-cuba-2021-07-11\/\">Reuters<\/a> reported that Cuba\u2019s President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who also heads the Communist Party, \u201cblamed the unrest on old Cold War foe the United States \u2026 in a televised speech on Sunday afternoon. Diaz-Canel said many protesters were sincere but manipulated by U.S.-orchestrated social media campaigns and \u2018mercenaries\u2019 &nbsp;on the ground, and warned that further \u2018provocations\u2019 would not be tolerated, calling on supporters to confront \u2018provocations.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kengor noted in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/fidel-castros-war-on-religion\">National Catholic Register<\/a> when Cuban dictator and founder of the Communist regime Fidel Castro died in 2016:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>From the moment that Castro took hold in January 1959, churches were in trouble. The regime quickly launched a propaganda campaign against the faithful, describing Catholics as \u201csocial scum.\u201d By the late 1960s, Christmas was banned on the island. Churches were shut down. Priests and their parishioners were silenced, arrested or placed under tight surveillance, with every word of every service or homily monitored by government church-watchers infiltrating the pews. Any criticism, especially of the Marxist regime, was very dangerous. One could not be a member of the Communist Party in Cuba (the only party legally permitted, including for any government jobs) without professing a belief in atheism.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Only hours before former President Barack Obama landed in Cuba in 2016, Cuban authorities&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2016\/03\/20\/cuba-dissidents-protesters-arrested-president-obama-visit\/82048950\/\">arrested<\/a> more than 50 dissidents who were marching to demand improved human rights. While Obama was there, he enjoyed a baseball game with Cuban president Raul Castro, even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/video\/obama-castro-do-the-wave-at-baseball-game-650146371536\">doing the wave<\/a> with him. Raul Castro had succeeded his ruthless brother Fidel as president.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami Herald reported in 2016 of the brutal history of Fidel and Raul Castro\u2019s regime:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"27.517456359102\">\n<p><em>The late and widely respected University of Hawaii historian&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/powerkills\/PERSONAL.HTM\">R. J. Rummel<\/a>, who made a career out of studying what he termed \u201cdemocide,\u201d the killing of people by their own government, reported in 1987 that credible estimates of the Castro regime\u2019s death toll ran from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/powerkills\/COM.TAB1.GIF\">35,000 to 141,000<\/a>, with a median of 73,000.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026 the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/cubaarchive.org\/wordpress\/\">Cuba Archive<\/a>, the Coral Gables-based organization generally regarded as the most scrupulous in documenting human-rights abuses in Cuba, uses a much lower figure of 7,193 \u2026 &nbsp;\u201cThose are the ones we\u2019ve documented, using either information released by the government or the testimony of eyewitnesses, not hearsay or guesswork,\u201d says Maria Werlau, the group\u2019s president. \u201cWe know the numbers are much, much higher, but this is what we can actually document so far.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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