{"id":602795,"date":"2021-07-26T14:20:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T18:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=602795"},"modified":"2021-07-26T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T18:20:38","slug":"down-with-communism-cuban-freedom-rally-takes-place-in-front-of-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/down-with-communism-cuban-freedom-rally-takes-place-in-front-of-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Down With Communism\u2019: Cuban Freedom Rally Takes Place In Front Of White House"},"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%2Fdown-with-communism-cuban-freedom-rally-takes-place-in-front-of-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=602795&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\/Screenshot-Richie-McGinniss-on-Twitter-e1627322658629.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A large protest denouncing communism in Cuba took place Monday afternoon in front of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of protesters gathered in Washington, D.C., to denounce the communist regime in Cuba and protest for civil liberties and freedom. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/02\/25\/sanders-questioned-autocratic-praise\/\">(RELATED: Bernie Sanders Questioned About Past \u2018Sympathy\u2019 For Far-Left, Autocratic Regimes)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators waved flags that read \u201canti-communism\u201d and presented large banners that read \u201cfreedom\u201d and \u201cdown with communism.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.4117647058824\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">HAPPENING NOW \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfa<br \/>Large protest in front of The White House supporting the Cuban freedom movement and denouncing the Communist regime: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0mrfEQElwB\">pic.twitter.com\/0mrfEQElwB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richie\ud83c\udfa5McG\ud83c\udf7f (@RichieMcGinniss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichieMcGinniss\/status\/1419709548340916224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One speaker in Lafayette Square begged for President Joe Biden\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden, please be with the Cubans,\u201d the speaker said. \u201cWe need your leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.206896551724\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cPresident Biden, please be with the Cubans. We need your leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaker in front of a large crowd at the free Cuba rally in Lafayette Square in front of The White House <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5W8sn1MBCn\">pic.twitter.com\/5W8sn1MBCn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richie\ud83c\udfa5McG\ud83c\udf7f (@RichieMcGinniss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichieMcGinniss\/status\/1419712989180141573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CodePink, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codepink.org\/syringes4cuba\">advocacy group<\/a> that supports ending the U.S. blockade on Cuba, clashed with the protesters who shouted profanities at them. Secret Service eventually guided the crowd out of Lafayette Square and the protesters ended up on H Street.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.9668246445498\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Better look at the size of the crowd<\/p>\n<p>Everyone poured into H St as Secret Service guided the demonstrators out of Lafayette Square <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vctbyTeinf\">pic.twitter.com\/vctbyTeinf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richie\ud83c\udfa5McG\ud83c\udf7f (@RichieMcGinniss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichieMcGinniss\/status\/1419717254036561921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Secret Service told Daily Caller video director Richie McGinniss that Lafayette Park was going to be temporarily closed. The crowd began to disperse Monday afternoon around 2:00.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.718085106383\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Per Secret Service, Lafayette Square will be closed for a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>Crowd is starting to disperse for now <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ktD5cafuoC\">pic.twitter.com\/ktD5cafuoC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richie\ud83c\udfa5McG\ud83c\udf7f (@RichieMcGinniss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichieMcGinniss\/status\/1419717807437123592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Protests in Cuba exploded in mid-July as thousands took to the streets to protest for civil rights. The authoritarian government launched <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFP\/status\/1414490726050656259\">counter-protests<\/a> and sent out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/americas\/cuba\/article252717833.html\">special forces<\/a> to round up dissidents, and Cuban President <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/16\/raul-castro-resignation-cuba-communist-party\/\">Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel<\/a> issued an \u201corder to fight,\u201d causing protesters to worry that harsher crackdowns were coming.<\/p>\n<p>Many on the left who are sympathetic to Cuba\u2019s communist regime have tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/13\/joe-biden-twitter-cuba-protests-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-blockade\/\">blame<\/a> the unrest on the pandemic, including strained hospitals and a shortage of medical supplies. But calls for \u201cfreedom,\u201d \u201cliberty\u201d and \u201cdown with communism\u201d revealed a deeper reason for the protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large protest denouncing communism in Cuba took place Monday afternoon in front of the White House.Hundreds of protesters gathered in Washington, D.C., to denounce the communist regime in Cuba &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-602795","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\/602795","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=602795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602795\/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=602795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}