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It was really quite overwhelming to hear this one woman's story who was only 16 at the time

and had only gone to him one time and it ruined her life.

I mean, she was, it just really, really was crushing.

She had no idea how lenient his plea deal was and she had no idea that he was out there, you know, still

most likely doing a lot of the same abuses.

The Cuban government for many years have been used the same sort of misinformation campaigns

that we have been seeing now on a national level in the U.S.

I mean, they learned this from Prussia,

from the former Soviet Union,

attacking me and attacking the paper.

With every day, the protests got more violent,

and there were hundreds of thousands of people gathering there, very firm in what they wanted, which was the resignation of the governor.

And I thought, if something happens to someone here, someone dies, this is our responsibility.

We did this. I'm not forcing people to go to a protest, but they did it in part because we gave them this information all at once.

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