{"id":595154,"date":"2021-07-17T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T19:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=595154"},"modified":"2021-07-17T15:37:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T19:37:33","slug":"cuba-lifts-food-restrictions-amid-anti-communist-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuba-lifts-food-restrictions-amid-anti-communist-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba lifts food restrictions amid anti-communist protests"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fcuba-lifts-food-restrictions-amid-anti-communist-protests%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=595154&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 id=\"attachment_2459474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2459474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cuban citizens residing in Dominican Republic take part in a demonstration against the government of the Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel near the Cuban embassy, in Santo Domingo on July 12, 2021. (Photo by ERIKA SANTELICES\/afp\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:22 PM PT \u2013 Saturday, July 17, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Cuba has lifted food and medicine restrictions amid some of the largest protests in decades. Earlier this week, Cuba announced it would be temporarily lifting restrictions on basic goods that travelers could bring into the country as protests rage on against the communist government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Cuban government has attempted to silence their [Cubans] voices and communications through internet shutdowns, violence and arbitrary detentions of dozens of protesters, journalists, activists and other repressive tactics,\u201d said U.S. State Department Spokesman Ned Price.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cuba lifts food, medicine customs restrictions after protests <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T72Nf5Mo9D\">https:\/\/t.co\/T72Nf5Mo9D<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WyTs3mmzCf\">pic.twitter.com\/WyTs3mmzCf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1415483803955499010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last weekend, thousands of Cubans flooded the streets in protest of mass shortages of food, medicine and other essential items. Cubans have also reported spending hours in lines just to buy groceries.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country\u2019s tourism industry especially hard, propelling it into an even worse economic state.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/biden-admin-officials-admit-lab-leak-theory-credible\/\">Biden Admin. Officials Admit Lab Leak Theory \u2018Credible\u2019<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuban citizens residing in Dominican Republic take part in a demonstration against the government of the Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel near the Cuban embassy, in Santo Domingo on July 12, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595154","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}