>>> YOU WILL GET BACK IN THE GREEN AT NO TIME, SPEED PICK BACK UP AT 43 MILES PER HOUR.
>>> WE BEGIN WITH HISTORIC
PROTESTS HAPPENING ALL ACROSS
CUBA, THOUSANDS OF DEMONSTRATORS
TAKING TO THE STREETS ON THE
ISLAND DEMANDING AN END TO
DICTATORSHIP, AS WELL AS HELP
AMID SHORTAGES WITH FOOD, AND
MEDICINE.
CLOSER TO HOME, BIG CROWDS ALSO
TAKING TO THE STREETS OF LITTLE
HAVANA, DOING WHAT THEY CAN TO
SUPPORT THOSE AFFECTED BY THE
COMMUNIST REGIME.
>>> LARGE GROUP SHOWING THEIR
SOLIDARITY IN THE FIGHT FOR
FREEDOM IN CUBA, WE HAVE TEAM
COVERAGE THIS MORNING, BEGINNING
WITH LOCAL 10’S MADELEINE WRIGHT
WERE MORE ON DEMONSTRATIONS THAT
WENT WHEEL INTO TOO NIGHT,
MADELEINE.
>>> GOOD MORNING, ERIC, JACEY,
THE RAINY WEATHER DID NOT DETER
FOLKS FROM COMING OUT HERE TO
THIS LANDMARK RESTAURANT TO MAKE
THEIR VOICES HEARD.
DEMONSTRATORS SAY THEY WILL KEEP
PROTESTING AS LONG AS THE PEOPLE
IN CUBA CONTINUE PROTESTING IN
THEIR FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY.
>>> FOR THE SECOND STRAIGHT DAY,
HUNDREDS OF CUBAN AMERICANS
DESCENDED ON SOUTHWEST EIGHTH
STREET NEAR CAFE VEAR ISIL TO
STAND IN SOLIDARITY, WITH
PROTESTORS IN CUBA WHO ARE
DEMANDING AN END TO A 62
YEAR-OLD AUTHORITARIAN REGIME.
>>> COMMUNIST RIGHT THERE, IF
THEY DON’T CHANGE THAT IN 62
YEARS, IT IS TIME TO TO
SOMETHING.
>>> CUBAN AS PROTESTING THE LACK
OF FOOD, MEDICINE, AND VACCINES
AMID A PANDEMIC RAVAGED ECONOMY.
>>> COVID-19 IS OUT OF THEIR
HANDS RIGHT NOW.
THEY DON’T HAVE MEDICINE.
THEY DON’T HAVE HOSPITAL, THEY
DON’T HAVE BEDS.
>>> CUBAN PRESIDENT MIGUEL DIAZ
CANEL BLAMES THE ECONOMIC WOES
ON THE U.S. TRADE I’M BARGOO IN
AN APPARENT EFFORT TO STOP THE
SOCIAL MEDIA FUELED PROTESTS,
THE COMMUNIST-RUN GOVERNMENT
RESTRICTED INTERNET ACCESS.
>>> THEY DON’T WANT THE IMAGE
JUST THAT WE SAW YESTERDAY,
BEING SHOWN AROUND THE WORLD.
MIAMI MAYOR FRANCIS SUAREZ IS
ASKING THE WHITE HOUSE TO TAKE
DRASTIC STEPS TO ADDRESS THE
CUBAN CRISIS, PROTESTORS CARRIED
THE SIGNS WITH THE WORD PA TRY
YEAH EVITA.
>>> IT MEANS OUR COUNTRY AND OUR
LIFE, PEOPLEWAM WANT TO LIVE FOR
THEIR COUNTRY AND FREEDOM AND
THIS IS APOPPORTUNITY WE CAN’T
STOP NOW.
>>> -BACK LIVE AT THE
RESTAURANT, THE PROTESTS PICKED
UP MOMENTUM AFTER SEVERAL
CELEBRITIES STARTED TWEETING
USING THE HASHTAG S.O.S. CUBA,
FOLLOW ME FOR UPDATES ON THE
PROTEST ON FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM
AND TWITTER AT MWRIGHT@WPLG,
LIVE IN LITTLE HAVANA, MADELEINE
WRIGHT LOCAL 10 NEWS.
>>> MADELEINE, THANK YOU.
AND PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS HE
FIRMLY SUPPORTS THE PEOPLE OF
CUBA IN THE WAKE OF THEIR
HISTORIC PROTEST AGAINST THE
OPPRESSIVE COMMUNIST REGIME, IT
COMES AFTER SOUTH FLORIDA
LAWMAKERS CALLED ONLY PRESIDENT
BIDEN FOR CUBAN PROTESTORS, THE
WHITE HOUSE SAYING IN PART "THE
CUBAN PEOPLE ARE BRAVELY
ASSERTING THEIR RIGHT OF
PEACEFUL PROTEST, AND THE RIGHT
TO FREELY DETERMINE THEIR OWN
FUTURE MUST BE RESPECTED.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS CLOSELY
MONITORING SITUATION IN CUBA AND
WARNS THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT
AGAINST TARGETING PEACEFUL
PROTESTORS.
>>> MANY INSTANCES, PEACEFUL
PROTESTORS WERE MET WITH
REPRESENTATION AND VIOLENCE.
>>> WE CALL ON THE GOVERNMENT,
GOVERNMENT OF CUBA TO REFRAIN
FROM VIOLENCE.
>>> THEY ARE ATTACKING PEACEFUL
PROTESTORS IN AN EFFORT TO
SILENCE THEM.
>>> FLORIDA SENATOR RICK SCOTT
AGREES AND ON CAPITOL HILL
MONDAY EVENING HE CALLED ON
PRESIDENT BIDEN TO IMPOSE EVEN
MORE SANCTIONS.
>>> SOUTH FLORIDIANS COMING
TOGETHER TO HELP STRUGGLING
CUBANS WITH BASIC NECESSITY,
DROPPING OFF SUPPLIES TO BOATERS
AS CUBAN CITIZENS CONTINUE TO
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM BUT GETTING
SUPPLIES OVER TO CUBA PROVING TO
BE MORE CHALLENGING THANK SOME
THOUGHT.
>>> WE HAVE ANNALISE GARCIA
JOINING US LIVE FROM PELICAN
HARBOR MARINA WITH MORE ON THE
SETBACK, ANNALISE WHAT IS THE
ISSUE?
>>> JACEY, ERIC, SEVERAL PEOPLE
DROPPING OFF DIFFERENT TYPES OF
SUPPLIES, ESSENTIAL NEEDS IS
WHAT THEY CALLED IT, DIFFERENT
BOATS HEADING OUT TOWARD THE
WATER TO GET TO CUBA WITH ALL
THESE SUPPLIES, BUT, ONE GROUP
TELLS US THAT THEY HAVE GOT
PRETTY FAR BUT THEY WERE STOPPED
AND TOLD TO TURN AROUND.
PEOPLE ARRIVING TO PELICAN
HARBOR BRINGING SUPPLY BY BOAT,
THINGS LIKE WATER, FOOD AND
MEDICINE, ESSENTIALS THEIR LOVED
ONES AND OTHERS ARE MESSING.
>>> WE WILL NOT TRANSPORT ACROSS
WATERS BE YOU WITH LESUPPORT
THEM.
>>> HENRY DIAZ PLANS TO TAKE TO
THE FLORIDA STRAITS BY BOAT
12 MILES OFF THE COAST OF CUBA.
THEY TELL US THIS IS ALL TO
SUPPORT THE CUBAN PEOPLE WHO ARE
SUFFERING.
DEE YADZ AND OTHERS LIKE SUAREZ
WHO HAVE RELATIVES ON THE ISLAND
SAY THEY PLAN TO DROP OFF
SUPPLIES IF PERMITTED.
>>> WE HAVE ENOUGH BOATS AND
HAVE A PERMIT AND STUFF WE CAN
GO INTO CUBA AND HELP THEM OUT,
TAKE MEDICINE, TAKE SUPPLIES,
WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT DARE YEB SAID IT WILL
BE DIFFICULT.
>>> THE U.S. COAST GUARD WHOSE
HELICOPTER WE SAW FLYING IN THE
AREA THIS MORNING TELLS US THEY
ARE WELL AWARE OF THE TENS OF
THOUSANDS OF CUBANS WHO TOOK TO
THE STREETS TO PEACEFULLY
PROTEST.
THEY ARE AWARE OF THE POSSIBLE
BOATERS TAKING TO THE FLORIDA
STRAITS, THEY SAY THE TRANSIT IS
DANGEROUS AND UNFORGIVING AS
NEARLY 20 LIVES WERE TRAGICALLY
LOST IN RECENT WEEKS AS A RESULT
OF THE DANGEROUS VOYAGES.
THEY SAY THEY DON’T ENCOURAGE
THE TRIP, AND ARE NOW MONITORING
ANY UNPERMITTED VOYAGES.
>>> NOW, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT
FOR THE GROUP, THE PEOPLE WHO
WERE MEETING TO TAKE THE
SUPPLIES O’SO THEY ARE TRYING
HARD TO GET THERE AND LIKE I
SAID AND WE HAVE SEEN THIS
MORNING THE U.S. COAST GUARD IS
MONITORING THESE VOYAGES