The Cuba Protests

Jul 15, 2021
4:34 PM
Originally published at Audioboom

After a series of rare anti-government protests in Cuba, Latino Rebels Radio speaks with Professor Michael Bustamante on what’s missing in the narrative and what to look out for as the story continues to develop. Bustamante is an Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Florida International University in Miami and the author of “Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile.”

Featured image: People protest in front of the Capitol in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 11, 2021. Hundreds of demonstrators went out to the streets in several cities in Cuba to protest against ongoing food shortages and high prices of foodstuffs, amid the new coronavirus crisis. (AP Photo/Ramón Espinosa)

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