'Fox & Friends Weekend' co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy speaks with activists in Miami who are protesting against the Cuban government
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Communism is a failed system.
Communism is a failed system,
universally failed system.
Cuba is a unfortunately, a
failed state and repressing
their citizens.
Rachel cuban President Miguel
firing back at President Biden
for those comments. Saying that
the? U dot s is a failed state. Not
Cuba.
Is he shifting blame for the
massive protesting in a
translated tweet? If President
Joseph Biden had sincere
humanitarian concern for the
cuban people, he would eliminate
the two hundred and forty three sanctions applied by
Donald Trump
PETE this as a caravan of
supporters, heads from Miami to
d, dot c, to call on Biden to take
action and help the cuban
people
Rachel. You were down there
yesterday,
Rachel, I sure, was
and by the way, the protests or
the rallies in party of the
Cubans on the island arent. Just
in South Florida.
They have erupted everywhere
from Ohio to California.
They are all over the United
States,
but that caravan is heading out.
I was in Miami at Versailles,
restaurant, which is iconic cuban
restaurant ground, zero gathering
point for so many people to get
together and talk about whats
happening and show their
support.
Here is what that looked like
when I was there over the last
couple days.
Why are you here
were here because we want to
Cuba for freedom?
I was born and raised in
Cuba,
horns honking
speaking, spanish
every
night we cry for our friend and
family. They are dying.
Why are you here,
Cuba to be free
speaking, spanish
Rachel? My mom is in Cuba and
she is hungry.
My family
whats, your message to your
mother
speaking Spanish
Rachel be strong.
Cuba is going to be free.
Speaking Spanish
Rachel im going to be here
fighting for her.
We are standing in inside
Versailles, cuban restaurant,
which has become ground zero for
some of South floridas Cuban
Americans,
the uprisings in Cuba.
So much of it has been started
by the song
speaking spanish
country and life
chanting
Rachel. How important has been
the art community in this
particular uprising,
extremely important,
something people dont realize
Rachel, a youth movement,
its a youth movement,
Rachel fifteen, sixteen years old and to
be part of a movement
you are in the middle of
history in the making.
This is something that needs to
move forward, not just for us, but
other people out there and to
spread the awareness. What is
happening in Cuba is terrible
and there needs to be change,
seeing all the support that
its generated across the world,
its inspiring a little sense of
hope. I think the best way to
keep moving forward is cautious
optimism.
Many of them have had
political police burst into
their home and children taken
away from them at gunpoint.
Absolute tragedy whats
happening there. The cuban people
are showing that one they have
lost their fear.
They are no longer afraid.
My father was killed nine years
ago by a direct order of Castro
in an attack perpetrated by the
Cuba Cuban Military service.
I came here in nineteen fifty seven. I was
part of the Bay of PIG invasion
im still here,
im still fighting,
we wont stop until Cuba is
free,
PETE, wow,
Rachel yeah, it was very
emotional.
Can you see that what is
happening in Cuba now
first of all, is amazing,
its all over the country,
and they really believe this is
the best chance the island has
had had to be free from
communism,
so much emphasis in South
Florida? What can we do?
One of the things they need is
more internet access.
We have been talking about
internet how important that is
to freedom,
that is the public square right
now
and they cut off cell phone.
They have cut off internet,
they are asking Joe Biden if he
would just do something provide
some sort of technology.
They float balloons turn the:
U Dot, s embassy into a hot spot, so
people can a organize and b put
out these videos showing the
kind of repression they are
getting.
There are some videos already.
We are seeing teenage boys being
dragged out of their homes and
being forced to go into the
military against their will
against the will of their
families,
beatings, killings, bits and
pieces coming out,
but we need more information and
thats going to be the key to
keeping this protest. This
rally, this call for Liberty
PETE this movement
Rachel, this movement,
its not about the embargo.
People are not on the street.
Talking about the embargo,
nobody is talking about Covid
its about liberty and anger at
the communist regime.
Pete, so well done, and what a
reminder? Ideas have consequence,
as we debate who we are here, as
Marxism arrives on the shores
and anyplace a at the margins,
whats acceptable and not
acceptable.
All of that feels both small and
bigger because of this
small in comparison to what the
cuban people face
real repression every day.
Ninety miles from our shore
ideals have consequences, but big
because over time, if you allow
those forces to take hold the
things we take for granted,
those precious things can slip
away,
will not just an idea
thats what is fascinating, while
Bernie Sanders or Blm may issue
statements on the idea of
socialism and communism.
What you show in that package,
its real people who have
experienced this life, who have
relatives who have suffered
under these types of systems?
I find it fascinating how
dismissive people are
real world experience was seen a
documentary or read the right
book or whatever they may have
been taught
that likens them to dismiss
completely the people you just
highlight who has family
ninety miles off that Florida coast
who actually lived this idea
Rachel yeah
its really will awful
PETE. Most of the images we have
right now are from Sunday
because the crackdown has been
in full force ever since.
Hopefully, there is a flick
everywhere of that movement
still going.
Transcript generated on 2021-08-03.