The United States is not behind the protests in Cuba and the accusation that Washington was plotting them was "absurd," State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel told a news briefing on Monday (March 18). On Sunday, Cubans staged rare street protests in the second-largest city Santiago de Cuba, Bayamo and other places against food and electricity shortages.
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