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ROB MILLER reports on the protests against shortages on the socialist island that have been seized upon by the US as a pretext for intervention when it the US itself that starves Cuba via its illegal blockade
Backers of the government march in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 11, 2021

ON SUNDAY July 11 a number of street protests took place in Cuba against power cuts and the scarcity of food and medicine.

The protests were widely reported across the international mainstream media, with news reports running all day on TV networks including the BBC.

The central narrative was that these protests were a call for freedom by the oppressed Cuban people.

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