Joe Biden is reportedly thinking about a U.S. intervention in Cuba following growing anti-government protests.
On Thursday, Biden said he is thinking about involving the U.S. in Cuba’s crackdown on protests breaking out across the country over a lack of food and medicine, according to U.S. News. In addition, Havana is allegedly trying to limit dissenters’ communication with one another.
During a White House press conference on Thursday, Biden said access to the Internet had been cut off in Cuba. “They’ve cut off access to the Internet. We’re considering whether we have the technology to reinstate that access.”
Reports show Cubans have been standing in lines for hours to get essential items needed in the midst of the pandemic. There have also been major spotting with the Internet and blackouts during the hot summer in the country. “It has destroyed me,” Raisa Emilia González Cantillo, who is the mother of a jailed dissident. “We don’t even have Internet to tell the world what’s happening.”
Biden called Cuba “a failed state” that is “repressing their citizens.”
“There are a number of things we are considering doing to help the people of Cuba, but that would require a different circumstance or a guarantee that they would not be taken advantage of by the government,” said Biden. He noted that the idea for Cuban-Americans to receive cash remittances that they could send to their family on the island, among other things.
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