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They left Cuba searching for the American Dream. ICE sent them home in shackles.
Patrick Oppmann CNN
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Patrick Oppmann CNN
@CNN_Oppmann
CNN International Correspondent & Havana Bureau Chief
Joined December 2008
- Watch: Cubans doctors arriving in Italy to help combat the coronavirus in Lombardy where scores have died.
- Trump calls migrant caravan “an invasion.” The people I talked to in the caravan over nine days in Mexico said they hoped to work in agriculture, nail salons, factories and construction. What invaders aspire to take a society’s lowest paying, toughest jobs?
- Just in: three Italian citizens visiting Cuba have tested positive for coronavirus, the island’s first cases of the illness.
- I have lived in Cuba for nine years and the scenes we saw today were stunning. The protests spread more quickly than anyone could have imagined. I don’t know what tomorrow will bring but the level of discontent and anger isn’t going anywhere.
00:00 - Cubans protesting on Calle Línea in Vedado at this moment.
- Replying to @CNN_OppmannApologies and a correction: that’s video of the doctors leaving Cuba last night where they were given well deserved applause.
- This is in front of the Capitolio in Havana. Multiple people have been arrested as anti-government protests go on. A heavy police presence surrounds the area and pro-government supporters have come in to hold counter rallies.
00:00 - The street where Yunior García Aguilera lives has been closed off. Cuban police have surrounded his block and a group of men just hung a large flag over his window. He said earlier he would march by himself today but not clear if he will be allowed to leave.
- There are dozens of reporters covering the migrant caravan from around the world. CNN had mutiple teams here from the beginning, most of us Spanish speakers. No one has seen anyone from the Middle East. Everyone I have talked to is from Central America.
- Havana in the dark… On a nerve wracking drive home, I saw a few hospitals and hotels running on generators but the rest of this city and island are totally without power.
- Cuba is in a nationwide blackout, state media reports.
