The Cuba protests deserve more attention
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Summary
In the wake of the massive anti-government protests taking place in the streets of Cuba, one thing is for sure, the world needs to be paying attention to what's going on in Cuba right now. And yet, there seems to be a complete lack of coverage of the events taking place.
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so what are the latest developments on the anti-government protests taking part in the
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streets of cuba right now many thousands of people taking to the streets and saying no
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to the communist dictatorship of cuba what are those latest details well i'd love to fill you
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in on them i'd love to tell you that people are chatting about it in coffee shops across canada
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and with their neighbors and say oh did you hear the news here's the latest in cuba oh yeah this
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story really matters and so forth i would love to tell you all of that but that's not what i'm
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hearing what i'm hearing is crickets relatively speaking in terms of the media coverage in terms
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of the political discussion the discussion among the elite classes and just the basic sense of
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urgency and amplification behind this story it is remarkable that you have many thousands of people
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taking the streets saying enough is enough to so much of what's going on in cuba right now
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you've got this genuine call for freedom for liberty for democracy and then you got people
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in countries like canada kind of turning a blind eye to it not really concerned about it the story
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just not being amplified what on earth is going on here because there are so many other examples of
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stories that are unfolding anywhere in the world the minutiae of american politics for instance and
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every little bit of it every step by step we're fed here in canada by by u.s media by our media
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everybody talking about it non-stop unpacking on social media everybody can tell you every little
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detail of these stories when it's sort of thrust upon you as an urgent story that must be amplified
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but here when it comes to what's going on in cuba potentially a historic process right now you're
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hearing relatively little little bit of coverage about the basics but that is it not much from
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political leaders either i mean prime minister justin chateau he initially offered this this very
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weak statement on it he sort of had to be shamed into condemning the violent crackdowns that were
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going on people have actually been killed in the responses to these protests and well over a hundred
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people are are missing they've been disappeared it's unclear what's happened to them i mean this is
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something that the world should be watching because one of the things that fresh press freedom gives
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you in these shaky countries in these regimes where anything could happen if you don't have
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freedom of the press is well bad things do happen which is why in these moments of of revolution of
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resistance people taking to the streets you want to be attentive to what's going on in all of this
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i mean this is why people say you've got a document what's going on in china right now
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why democracy activists in iran they say you've got to pay attention we need cameras here so everybody
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can see what's happening so so you can hold governments to account and officials to account so they feel like
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they cannot persecute their own people and yet a sort of lack of general interest in getting behind
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covering and paying attention to what's going on in cuba right now it's really disappointing
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it's really shameful that justin trudeau is not doing more is not saying more u.s president joe biden
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not doing a lot not really siding with those distant communities in cuba who say come on
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we need liberty we need freedom in this country could it be because this is more of a more of a left-wing
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regime and that is why and that whatever awful things that they do yeah you know it's okay it's
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for the good of the cause and so forth we're going to downplay it we're not going to talk about it too
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much i don't know but that certainly seems to be what's going on here incredibly shameful that so
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many stories of lesser consequence are amplified so much this story uh-uh people just aren't paying