Activist and journalist Gelet Fragela speaks out about the human rights abuses in Cuba
John Solomon Reports
John Solomon
4.7 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
As the protests in Cuba become more intense, Cuban refugees like Gelet Fragela shed light on the oppressive situation and plead for the U.S. to step up and help their families.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello America, I know it's the weekend. It's Saturday. You're not expecting to hear my voice. |
| 0:11.2 | You're probably out wanting to move along, have a drink on the back porch, cook up some |
| 0:15.2 | of those great cans of city steaks, right? Well, guess what? News is breaking up. What's |
| 0:19.6 | going on in Cuba is an enormous moment in world history. We have waited 60 or 70 years |
| 0:25.4 | for a moment to see if the Cuban people can free themselves from the communist regime |
| 0:30.5 | that has repressed them since the day that the Castro brothers took power. And over |
| 0:35.7 | the last week, there are signs that this could be a peristrike a moment like that, which |
| 0:40.6 | struck the Soviet Union and befelled the Soviet Union for a more free set of republics. |
| 0:46.4 | Or it could be the Green Revolution that the Obama administration failed to fully engage |
| 0:51.9 | in Iran in 2009 and 2010. And as a result, it was repressed and Iran remains under the tyrannical |
| 0:58.7 | rule of those Iranian mullahs. We don't know, but the people of Cuba are speaking. They're agitating. |
| 1:05.6 | They're begging for freedom. They're resisting censorship, resisting the economic repression |
| 1:11.0 | and incompetence of the communist regime that has governed their island for 60 plus years. |
| 1:16.2 | And we have a special guest to make sense of it all. That's why we're doing a special edition. |
| 1:20.4 | On a Saturday, I know I'm intruding under a weekend. Give me a chance to make a good case. |
| 1:25.4 | And I have just the case to make why I've got one of the greatest journalists covering Cuba |
| 1:32.2 | in the world today. Her name is Helette Fahella. She runs the site, ADN Cuba, down in Miami. |
| 1:38.9 | She's an American journalist and expat from Cuba who fled Cuba, became a refugee lawfully |
| 1:45.0 | in the United States. She and her family have been enemies of the state of Cuba for a long time. |
| 1:51.2 | Her grandfather was imprisoned after the Bay of Pigs. You have a family here today that |
| 1:57.4 | has enormous stake in there. And a journalist who's covering it neutrally with a great |
| 2:02.7 | perspective, great sources on the ground. We're going to ask her all the questions you've been |
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