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March in Miami in support of the fight for freedom in Cuba

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.