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Cuba slams US ‘involvement’ on anniversary of anti-gov’t protests

People take part in a demonstration against the government of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Havana, July 11, 2021 [File: Yamil Lage/AFP]

Cuba’s foreign minister has accused the United States of being involved in efforts to “subvert law and order” in the country after President Joe Biden’s administration welcomed the courage of Cuban protesters who took to the streets last year in rare anti-government demonstrations.

In a statement on Monday marking the one-year anniversary of the Cuban protests, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington “celebrate[s] the Cuban people and commend[s] their indomitable determination in the face of oppression”.

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