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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.
Madrid, Jul 14 (EFE) .- Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday in front of the Cuban Embassy in Madrid to show support for the Cuban people. Among the gathered were Pablo Montesinos, deputy secretary of communication of the PP, Rocío Monasterio, president of VOX in the Community of Madrid and Edmundo Bal, deputy secretary general and national spokesman for Ciudadanos.(Camera: MARTIN CARRASCO)SHOT LIST: DEMONSTRATIONS OUTSIDE THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN MADRID, SPAIN.
Miami (United States), Jul 15 (EFE / EPA) .- (CAMERA: Cristobal Herrera) With the slogan "If Cuba is on the street, Miami is too," Cubans of South Florida protest in support of those on the island.
Dozens of anti-Cuban regime activists chant "maximum penalty for Rocha" outside a federal courtroom in downtown Miami ahead of the sentencing at trial of former US ambassador to Bolivia, Victor Manuel Rocha, who is charged with spying for Cuba. IMAGES
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, arrives to vote at the Russian embassy in Berlin thronged by supporter after calling for voters to spoil their ballots in protest at Russia's stage-managed presidential election. The election is set to hand President Vladimir Putin another six years in the Kremlin, with Navalny, Putin's most prominent critic, dead in opaque circumstances in an Arctic prison last month. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).