william lear graham is a professor of government and a latin american politics expert at american university in washington d. c. i asked him whether cuba had any basis for accusing the us of having a hand in these protests. well, i'm sure he points to the fact that the united states has been spending about $20000000.00 a year in support of opposition elements inside cuba. but the reality is that these demonstrations were too large and 2 broad in scope across the island to be strictly the result of any effort by the united states to, for my job position. people are just you can, i'm really desperate and frustrated right now because there's no food in the stores . there's no medicine in the pharmacies. there is no fuel of gas stations. and there are now rolling electric blackouts in the middle of summer time. so people are just angry and the result is this kind of social explosion. us embargo plays an important role. donald trump black remittances from cuban americans going to their families in cuba. and that was about $3500000000.00 a year in hard currency flow. and foreign exchange currency