Alec Dent / July 14, 2021

Did the White House Suggest Cuban Protests Were Only About Vaccines and U.S. Sanctions?

A tweet from Ben Shapiro came in response to a Biden official, before the White House issued its statement

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Did the White House Suggest Cuban Protests Were Only About Vaccines and U.S. Sanctions?

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro claimed in a tweet Monday that the White House suggested that “this liberty movement [in Cuba] is solely about lack of vaccines and US sanctions.”

I personally spoke to some of the leaders of Cuba's dissident movement just weeks ago. The mainstream media and Biden WH line that this liberty movement is solely about lack of vaccines and US sanctions is a total lie. It is about the evil repression of a communist tyranny.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 12, 2021

This tweet came after Biden administration official Julie Chung, who is the acting assistant secretary for the State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairstweeted that the protesters are acting to “express concern about rising COVID cases/deaths & medicine shortages.”