medicine beds and doctors to deal with rising numbers. cases of cobit 19 joining us here on the news, john suarez executive director of the center for a free cuba. he joins us from miami, florida. john, welcome to the news. out of all those issues that we've just gone through. we just itemize the big issues, was any one of them a tipping point for the people of cuba? well i think that's the way it's been presented. what's been the tipping point hasn't been the sanctions placed by the u. s. and it was the big sanctions who replaced was with the western union with fence m x, which is the military was taking a good chunk of money. what cut down on the ability of cuban to send remittances home was over the last 6 months, the cuban government has shut down, travel from different countries, not just the united states, but the dominican republic, the bahamas, mexico, allegedly for coven. but in reality, because over the last 2 years, they've been looking to disappear at the black market and you have cuban mules traveling with food and medicines from these countries to help cubans inside the island. and

when i speak to john suarez, he's the executive director at the center for a free cuba. and he says, purchased as a, been fed up with the conditions they've been living under fi. yes. i think it's with the cuban government, made a decision back in january to shut down, travel from the dominican republic, panama, the united states for cuban nationals and prioritize russian tourists. many of them are coded 19 and that's blaming the cuban government for the outbreaks had been taking place. and at the same time, there's a lot of assistance that normally would be provided by your people. cubans are able to travel to central america, the u. s. the dominican republic and bring back food and medicine which they're no longer able to do. so that's creating a hostile environment for the cubans. and that's why they're so outraged and why they're demanding change and destabilizing the country, the policies a, b, l, which has been shutting off avenues for keeping, to be able to operate within the informal economy in cuba. which keeps many of them a lot of their suffering. there's a la

john? >>> francis suarez, mayor, thank you for being with us. you're imploring the u.s.e action. what do you want to see? >> first of all we would love to see the white house and president make a statement, supporting the cuban people, in solidarity with the cuban people. in addition to that, the international community is now seeing, as your correspondent said, the reality of what's happened in cuba. there has to be an international coalition on the cuban island. the people there are starving, yearning for freedom and people have absolutely no medicine and are getting devastated by covid. there has to be some level of intervention. obviously there's a lot of people in miami that would love to see military intervention. >> mayor suarez, i think we may have lost your microphone. mayor suarez? all right. we're going to get him back after a break. we'll be right back. >>> back with me now is the mayor of miami. francis suarez. the unprecedented demonstrations we saw all over cuba in the last 24 hours. mayor, you mentioned you wanted to see a statement from the biden adminis

john suarez, the center for a free cuba. he is executive director there. want to go back to washington, what's happening. the president just talking up obviously this initiative to get money in the hands of folks with the child care tax credits but i want to switch, a lot of texas democratic representatives are still in town, stand to be in town for at least another couple weeks. i say at least as they protest republican efforts and deny them a quorum to vote on in measures they say restrict voting rights. chad pergram following all of that right now on capitol hill. chad, what is the latest. reporter: good afternoon, neil. call it the texas two-step. democratic texas lawmakers loophole in statehouse rule, the legislature can't meets if it lack as quorum. that means the texas voting bill is blocked for now. that is why they fled to washington. >> they could care less. we have no input. we have one value. the only value we are to them is warm bodies to make a quorum. reporter: meet today with jimcratic senator joe manchin changing the filibuster on the fede

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