{"id":588890,"date":"2021-07-12T12:21:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T16:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=588890"},"modified":"2021-07-12T12:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T16:21:48","slug":"biden-calls-on-cuban-dictators-to-hear-their-people-and-serve-their-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-on-cuban-dictators-to-hear-their-people-and-serve-their-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Calls On Cuban Dictators To \u2018Hear Their People And Serve Their Needs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fbiden-calls-on-cuban-dictators-to-hear-their-people-and-serve-their-needs%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=588890&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-1327689577.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden issued a statement on the pro-democracy and anti-Communist protests in Cuba Monday morning, echoing earlier administration statements on the matter, and calling for the dictatorial Cuban regime to \u201chear their people\u201d and \u201cserve their needs\u201d amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The statement begins by expressing solidarity with \u201cthe Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba\u2019s authoritarian regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights,\u201d Biden continued. \u201cThose rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future, must be respected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States calls on the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rather than enriching themselves,\u201d the president concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The latter part of the statement echoes other Biden administration comments on the matter, including a comment from Julie Chung, the Acting Assistant Secretary for U.S. Department of State\u2019s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, who tweeted Sunday, \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>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stop-playing-cover-for-communists-crenshaw-levels-biden-state-dept-for-false-cuba-narrative\">Daily Wire reported earlier Monday<\/a>, that statement drew swift criticism from Republican legislators like Rep. Dan Crenshaw (TX), who pointed out that the Cubans protest in the streets of Havana were not demanding vaccines, they were demanding \u201cLIBERTAD.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop playing cover for communists and support the Cuban people. My god. Why is that so hard for you,\u201d Crenshaw tweeted at Chung. \u201cNo they\u2019re chanting LIBERTAD,\u201d he added, in reference to videos of the protests posted to social media.<\/p>\n<p>Cuban officials, in statements made Sunday, blamed the unrest on the United States government, which they claim is fomenting anti-Communist sentiment among Cubans.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba\u2019s President Miguel Diaz-Canel \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,&#8217;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/street-protests-break-out-cuba-2021-07-11\/\">according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. responded to Diaz-Canel\u2019s threats in a lukewarm statement made Monday, with national security advisor Jake Sullivan noting on Twitter that the&nbsp;\u201cU.S. supports freedom of expression and assembly across Cuba,\u201d and warning that the Biden administration will \u201cstrongly condemn any violence or targeting of peaceful protesters who are exercising their universal rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether Biden\u2019s Monday statement suggests the United States will take any further action on the Cuban protests or in support of the Cuban dissidents in their largest show of solidarity in decades. As Daily Wire editor emeritus <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1414588735103115270\">Ben Shapiro noted on Twitter Monday<\/a>, Cuba\u2019s health and food failures are \u201can outgrowth\u201d of the country\u2019s authoritarian regime. The two issues are inextricably linked.<\/p>\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. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden issued a statement on the pro-democracy and anti-Communist protests in Cuba Monday morning, echoing earlier administration statements on the matter, and calling for the dictatorial Cuban regime &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314480,"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\/GettyImages-1327689577.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Calls On Cuban Dictators To \u2018Hear Their People And Serve Their Needs\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588890","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\/GettyImages-1327689577.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Calls On Cuban Dictators To \u2018Hear Their People And Serve Their Needs\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588890","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=588890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}