{"id":595850,"date":"2021-07-18T09:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T13:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=595850"},"modified":"2021-07-18T09:51:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T13:51:26","slug":"cuba-protesters-covered-in-blood-stage-die-in-outside-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuba-protesters-covered-in-blood-stage-die-in-outside-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Protesters Covered in \u2018Blood\u2019 Stage Die-In Outside White House"},"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\">20<\/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-protesters-covered-in-blood-stage-die-in-outside-white-house%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=595850&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\/wh-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A small group of demonstrators draped with Cuban flags covered themselves in fake blood as they protested Saturday outside the White House, urging President Joe Biden to take action to aid Cubans amid unrest in the communist country.<\/p>\n<p>Three adults and two children dressed in \u201cYoung Pioneer\u201d school uniforms joined hundreds of other protesters on Pennsylvania Avenue, laying down on the sidewalk in front of the White House. Other protesters chanted \u201cFreedom for Cuba\u201d and carried signs, including one that read \u201cYou\u2019re sitting by while we die,\u201d and another that said \u201cCuba\u2019s blood is on your hands.\u201d Another sign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/17\/cuba-protesters-covered-in-blood-stage-die-in-outside-of-white-house\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29\">read<\/a>,&nbsp;\u201cBiden, history will remember how you turn your back to Cuba &amp; all the Cubans who voted for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Massive demonstrations erupted last week in Cuba as citizens of the island nation demanded an end to the communist dictatorship, which has left them suffering in poverty. Cubans took to the street in rarely seen demonstrations to protest the impoverished conditions of the island and their lack of freedom under the dictatorial regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a country known for repressive crackdowns on dissent, the rallies were widely viewed as astonishing,\u201d The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/11\/world\/americas\/cuba-crisis-protests.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cActivists and analysts called it the first time that so many people had openly protested against the Communist government since the so-called Maleconazo uprising, which exploded in the summer of 1994 into a huge wave of Cubans leaving the country by sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people are dying of hunger!\u201d one woman shouted during the protest, the Times reported. \u201cOur children are dying of hunger!\u201d Other chants included \u201cWe want freedom\u201d and \u201cWe want vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden and his administration has been slow to act. At first, Julie Chung, acting assistant secretary for U.S. Department of State\u2019s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, claimed the protests were caused by concern over COVID-19. \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,\u201d Chung wrote on Twitter. \u201cWe commend the numerous efforts of the Cuban people mobilizing donations to help neighbors in need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But critics immediately blasted that claim. \u201cThe Cuban people have been denied the right to \u2018peaceful assembly\u2019 for over 60 years,\u201d conservative activist Heydi Geroy tweeted. \u201cThis is so disrespectful in so many levels to the thousands of Cubans who have faced the firing squad for just trying to peacefully protest! @WHAAsstSecty have you been living under a rock?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Biden\u2019s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned Cubans who try to flee by sea to the U.S. that they will not be allowed into the country.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas, who is Cuban, said the Biden administration stands \u201cin solidarity with the Cuban people and their call for freedom from the repression and economic suffering that the Cuban\u2019s authoritarian regime is causing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Coast Guard, along with our state, local, and federal partners, are monitoring any activity that may indicate increases in unsafe and irregular maritime migration in the Florida straits, including unpermitted vessel departures from Florida to Cuba,\u201d Mayorkas said. \u201cThe time is never right to attempt migration by sea. To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking. Allow me to be clear: if you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.\u201d<\/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. 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