{"id":49826,"date":"2021-07-28T14:48:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T18:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=49826"},"modified":"2021-07-28T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T18:48:14","slug":"community-members-in-lehigh-acres-rally-for-cuban-freedom-in-their-homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/07\/community-members-in-lehigh-acres-rally-for-cuban-freedom-in-their-homeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Community members in Lehigh Acres rally for Cuban freedom in their homeland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The chants for Cuban freedom aren\u2019t stopping. Cuban Americans and many others are still demanding the U.S. government\u2019s help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"778\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/c1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/c1.png 778w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/c1-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/c1-768x295.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Community members lined the street in Lehigh Acres Tuesday rallying in solidarity with Cubans on the island nation. They want their loved ones to know what freedom feels like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many say they\u2019re disappointed they\u2019ve protested for 16 days and are still waiting for more to be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are just feeling desperate now,\u201d Maria Davila said. \u201cAnd we have our hopes really high, and we\u2019re waiting anxiously, anxiously waiting that Biden, the U.S. government finally do something. It\u2019s been going on 16 days that people are dying day-by-day. Not only one, but we have hundreds of people dying daily in Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Community member don\u2019t plan on stopping anytime soon. The organizer of the event in Lehigh said they\u2019re planning on hosting another one outside of the Democratic Party of Lee County\u2019s building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chants for Cuban freedom aren\u2019t stopping. Cuban Americans and many others are still demanding the U.S. government\u2019s help. Community members lined the street in Lehigh Acres Tuesday rallying in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49828,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49826\/revisions\/49828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}