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Cuba Shuts Down Dialogue, Blames The U.S. For Protesting Artists Who Demand More Freedoms

Young artists protest in front of the doors of the Ministry of Culture, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Dozens of Cuban artists demonstrated against the police evicting a group who participated in a hunger strike.
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Young artists protest in front of the doors of the Ministry of Culture, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Dozens of Cuban artists demonstrated against the police evicting a group who participated in a hunger strike.

It is a script that Cubans know well.

Less than 24 hours after the Ministry of Culture reached an agreement in response to an unprecedented public protest by more than 300 young artists and intellectuals demanding freedom of expression and the release of several members of the San Isidro Movement, the Cuban government unleashed a wave of attacks against what Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel called a “media show” and an example of U.S. meddling in the island’s internal affairs.

“They have put on a media show for us. There is an unconventional warfare strategy to try to overthrow the revolution,” Díaz-Canel said at a political event organized by the government on Sunday. “This is the last attempt by the Trumpistas and the anti-Cuban mafia. ... They had on their agenda that before the end of the year the Cuban revolution had to fall.”

Read more at our news partner the Miami Herald.

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