translated from Spanish: Raúl Castro attended a PCC meeting to discuss protests in Cuba

Former Cuban President Raul Castro participated in a meeting of the leadership of the Communist Party (PCC, the only legal one) in which the massive anti-government protests on Sunday were addressed, state media reported on Monday. At the meeting of the PCC’s Politburo, chaired by the first secretary of the party and president Miguel Diaz-Canel, “the provocations orchestrated by counterrevolutionary elements, organized and financed from the United States for destabilizing purposes, were analyzed,” according to a communique released by the Cuban News Agency. “The members of the highest party body also addressed the exemplary response of the people to comrade Diaz-Canel’s call to defend the Revolution in the streets, which made it possible to defeat the subversive actions,” the brief official note adds. International reactionsThe UN, the United States and the European Union came out in defense of the demonstrations that took place on Sunday in several cities in Cuba, and called on the government in Havana to listen to the demonstrators. “The Cuban people are courageously exercising fundamental and universal rights,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House. The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, urged the Cuban authorities to “allow” peaceful demonstrations of protest and to “listen” to their participants. The United Nations is also following the development of the protests and calling on the Cuban authorities to fully respect the freedom of expression and assembly of the citizens.

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