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July 12, 2021

State Department tweet tying COVID-19 to Cuban protests is criticized

The U.S. State Department was criticized Sunday over a tweet that tied the historic protests that broke out in Cuba to COVID-19 concerns in the country where people have been living under communism for decades.

July 12, 2021

Cuban president urges country’s ‘revolutionary’ citizens to counter protesters

Thousands of Cubans took to the streets in Havana to lash out at the worsening conditions in the country under the communist regime – the biggest protest in decades – prompting the country’s president to call on “revolutionary” citizens to counter the protesters.

July 11, 2021

Sen. Cruz says US stands behind Cuban protesters, regime consigned to ‘dustbin of history’

Sen. Ted Cruz, the son of a Cuban immigrant, took to Twitter on Sunday in support of the thousands of protesters that took to the streets in Havana to rail against the worsening conditions in the communist country.

July 11, 2021

Watch: American flags fly high in opposition of Cuba’s communist government

A week after America celebrated its independence — and in the midst of a romanticization of socialist principles from American politicians, celebrities and athletes — the people of Cuba took to the streets on Sunday to wave American flags high in the air in opposition of their oppressive communist government.

July 11, 2021

Bernie Sanders silent on Cuban pro-freedom uprisings after praising Fidel Castro's communist policies

U.S. lawmakers are speaking out on social media in solidarity with the demonstrations in Cuba. However, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who has previously defended the policies of Cuba's previous communist dictator Fidel Castro, has not yet issued a statement.

July 11, 2021

Video emerges of mass protests against communist dictatorship in Cuba: 'We are not afraid'

Thousands of Cuban protesters have taken to the streets demanding an end to the country's communist dictatorship.

July 5, 2021

Tropical Storm Elsa makes landfall in Cuba, eyes Florida

The storm is expected to batter Central and Western Cuba overnight before it continues to parts of the Florida Keys and Florida’s Gulf Coast Tuesday and Wednesday.

July 2, 2021

Media outlets vilify Donald Rumsfeld in obituaries after going gentle on Fidel Castro

Media outlets refrained from offering kind coverage to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in their obituaries following his death this week, but many of them went gentler on the passing of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro back in 2016.

June 28, 2021

'WMAG': Miami mayor explains how Cuban refugees settling in South Florida made America great

On Fox Nation's new season of, "What Made America Great,” Fox News host Brian Kilmeade traveled to a Miami neighborhood called Little Havana to learn about the Cuban community that settled there, fleeing from Fidel Castro’s regime in the 1960s and becoming an economic success story.

June 12, 2021

Biden pick for Navy secretary is Cuban-born Carlos Del Toro, a 22-year Navy veteran

President Biden said Friday he plans to nominate Carlos Del Toro for secretary of the Navy.