Cuban government cracks down on protesters

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🗓️ 14 July 2021

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Cuban activists are saying more than 100 people are missing or have been arrested during recent protests on the island over economic conditions. The protests are the largest in decades. Plus, the growing debate over COVID booster shots. And, Texas lawmakers flee the state. Guests: Telemundo News' Marina Franco, Axios' Caitlin Owens and Stef Kight. Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Dan Bobkoff, Alexandra Botti, Justin Kaufmann, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Sabeena Singhani, Amy Pedulla, Naomi Shavin, and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's the 14th of July and we've made it to Wednesday.
0:08.8	I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's what we're covering today. Do you need a COVID booster shot?
0:14.0	Plus, Texas Democrats take their fight over voting rights to Washington.
0:18.0	But first, today's one big thing. The Cuban government cracks down on protesters.
0:23.1	The Cuban activists are saying more than 100 people are missing or have been arrested during
0:31.9	recent protests on the island. These protests over economic conditions are the largest in decades.
0:37.6	Marina Franco is here with us for the latest. She writes the Axios Latino newsletter. What do we
0:42.6	know about who's been arrested? So far, there's very little information coming in from the island
0:48.7	because the government shut down the internet. So the identities of all those who have been
0:53.6	detained or even the actual number of how many have been detained are undetermined. But just this
1:00.4	Tuesday, there was a very high profile arrest when YouTuber Dina Starrs, who livestreamed
1:08.0	most of the protests on Sunday, was detained and taken who knows where while she was giving a
1:14.5	broadcast news interview. What kind of rights do Cuban citizens have to peaceful protest?
1:20.7	Protests have always been a very difficult topic for Cubans. They are very highly regulated.
1:28.9	Most protests are usually just the Cuban government summoning people to be like, yes,
1:36.6	long live the homeland, but actual protests do not have permits. And so protests are usually not
1:45.5	as numerous. And what was shocking about Sunday's protests was not only how many people seem to
1:51.2	spontaneously have gone out into the streets, but in how many cities and towns they did so.
1:58.1	And what was the theme of them? What were people saying? There's food scarcity, there's medicine,
2:03.2	scarcity, the coronavirus pandemic is not under control in the island and people cannot get treatments.
2:11.0	So there's a real frustration that has been brewing for some time. Several recent trigger events
2:19.3	like the San Isidro protests in November or even one of the San Isidro members who is a rapper called
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