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#Cuba: The spontaneous rising up of people shouting " Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ

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🗓️ 19 May 2023

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#Cuba: The spontaneous rising up of people shouting " Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-americans-betray-the-cuban-people-caimaera-cuba-protest-dictatorship-9fa3ee85?st=5but8mb5n4wgks5&reflink=article_gmail_share

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.4

Here's John Batchler.

0:11.2

Cuba.

0:12.5

Cuba in the news because of a protest that happened early in May in a village called

0:19.4

Kaminara.

0:20.9

Reuters describes the protest variously.

0:24.9

On one hand, any government chance and cries of freedom in what Reuters describes

0:29.5

the fishing village of Kaminara near the eastern tip of the island.

0:33.8

The other description of the same event by a state-run journalist, Mabel Pozo, says various

0:40.0

citizens, summon a state of drunkenness, yelled statements against this Cuban social process.

0:47.0

I welcome Mary Anastasia Grady, whose column addresses this incident of version two versions

0:54.4

of the same event.

0:56.0

And calls into question, first of all, where Kaminara is and what this means about the

1:01.0

continuing protest of the dictatorial regime in Cuba by its own people.

1:06.9

Mary, a very good evening to you.

1:08.9

Two versions of the same event.

1:11.1

What is Kaminara that Reuters calls it a fishing village?

1:15.1

Good evening to you.

1:16.3

Well, good evening, John.

1:18.0

I find that pretty funny because Cuba is an island surrounded by water with light.

1:25.4

Lots of fish and the population is pretty much starving.

1:30.4

And it's illegal to own a boat unless you have special permission from the government.

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