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Washington DC, Jul 17 (EFE).- Thousands of people rallied in the Cuban streets on Saturday in a pro-government march days after widespread protests rocked the communist regime amid an unprecedented economic and health crises on the island.Cubans living in exile in the United States poured out on the roads in solidarity with the anti-government protesters in Cuba, complaining that their brethren were struggling with food and medical care due to Covid-19.The protesters blame the communist dictatorship for the crisis amid a failing economy, food shortages, and frequent blackouts. (Camera: EFE).SHOT LIST: CUBANS LIVING IN EXILE IN THE UNITED STATES PROTEST AGAINST THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT OUTSIDE THE US WHITE HOUSE IN WASHINGTON, DC, US.SOUND BITE: ABEL SÁNCHEZ, ONE OF THE PROTESTERS (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: What we need is an automatic intervention, now, immediate. We don't need food, we don't need anything. What we need is freedom, which is what the Cuban people have been fighting for in the past 62 years and that is why all these Cubans are here today. For the freedom of Cuba.
Panama City, Jul 17 (EFE).- Thousands of people rallied in the Cuban streets on Saturday in a pro-government march days after widespread protests rocked the communist regime amid an unprecedented economic and health crises on the island.Cubans living in exile in the United States poured out on the roads in solidarity with the anti-government protesters in Cuba, complaining that their brethren were struggling with food and medical care due to Covid-19.Protests also took place in Panama as mobs gathered on Cuba Avenue.“We demand freedom, we demand democracy, freedom of expression, that our rights be respected, that Cuba belongs to the people, just as Panama belongs to the people," Cuban Emmanuel Reyes told EFE. (Camera: BIENVENIDO VELASCO).SHOT LIST: A PROTEST IN SOLIDARITY WITH ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTERS IN CUBA, IN PANAMA CITY, PANAMA.
Havana, Jul 12 (EFE).- Cubans woke on Monday to a tense calm, with no Internet service for mobile devices and a heavy police presence on the streets of Havana a day after thousands of citizens took to the streets to protest against the government amid an acute economic and health crisis.The data "blackout" is making it difficult to know for certain what is happening around the country, but by 3 pm no new demonstrations had been reported and no images of protests had hit the social networks. (Camera: FELIPE BORREGO).B-ROLL OF THE CITY OF HAVANA, CUBA, A DAY AFTER A MASSIVE PROTEST.
Miami, Aug 22 (EFE / EPA) .- Members of the Cuban community in Miami participated Sunday in the "Cuban freedom march" that was held in support of the thousands of Cubans who took to the streets of the island on July 11 to protest the lack of freedom and human rights, the government's response to the covid-19 pandemic, the shortage of medicines and basic products, as well as the deterioration of infrastructure in the country.Today's "Cuban freedom march" extended for about four kilometers and passed through places such as the Hermitage of Our Lady of Charity and the Domino Park in Little Havana.(Camera: CRISTOBAL HERRERA) SHOT LIST:THE MARCH FOR THE FREEDOM OF CUBA. IMAGES RECORDED IN THE HERMITAGE OF NUESTRA SEÑORA DE LA CARIDAD (MIN. 00:00 TO 03:11) AND IN THE DOMINO PARK OF SMALL HAVANA (MIN. 03:11 TO 04:34).SOUND BITES: RAMON RAUL SANCHEZ, LEADER OF THE DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT(IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS:Well, we come here to show solidarity with the Cuban people, young Cubans and their message in solidarity with the people of Cuba. To ask for human rights, to demand that the world set its eyes on our country where the young people who are fighting, the old, the whole world, are being massacred. And let that cursed scourge that has infested our homeland go away and that we want a great day, not too far from these same waters here behind the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity, go out in a great boat of brotherhood to Cuba and unite there to our national territory.
Images of a rally held in Armenia's Yerevan, close to the Prime Minister's office, to protest against the Armenian government and its Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan following the Azerbaijani military operation against Armenian separatist forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, which resulted in a lightning victory for Baku and the seperatists' capitulation. IMAGES
Kathmandu, Dec 14 (EFE/EPA).- The main opposition Nepali Congress party on Monday staged nationwide demonstration against the government apathy in the Covid-19 response and alleged corruption in the purchase of medical equipment. (Camera: NARENDRA SHRESTHA).SHOT LIST: ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST IN KATHMANDU, NEPAL.
Bangkok, Sep 19 (EFE), (Camera: Rungroj Yongrit).- Thousands of students and opponents to the Thai government gathered in front of the Grand Palace in Bangkok on Saturday to demand a reform of the Constitution, the dissolution of the current Parliament and democratic elections.Police said 5,000 protesters were in attendance by mid-afternoon, but more demonstrators were arriving by the minute to join the peaceful protest.Speeches with demands for the government are planned for later in the evening, with the rally expected to continue until Sunday.Organizers hope that 50,000 people will attend the protest, which would make it the largest demonstration since the military coup d’etat in 2014 that saw current prime minister and former general Prayut Chan-ocha take power.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN BANGKOK.
Several thousand people begin demonstrating in Paris to demand the withdrawal of the government's controversial pension reform, during an eighth national inter-professional day of demonstration called for, principally, by the CGT and FO unions. IMAGES
Thousands of Mexicans protest in Mexico City's Zocalo square against the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who they accuse of attempting to use constitutional reforms to sway June's presidential elections. IMAGES