Eli Lake, Columnist

Biden Can Bring the Internet, and Maybe Democracy, to Cuba

The U.S. did not cause the unrest on the island, but U.S. social media apps have kept it going.

July 20, 2021 at 9:59 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

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Faced with the largest protests Cuba has seen since 1994, the regime in Havana predictably blamed the unrest on the U.S.

The Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, said the U.S. embargo of the island was responsible. The foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez, said U.S.-backed mercenaries sparked the uprising.