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Cuban-American Artist Says New York Times Put Pro-Regime Content Into Her Op-Ed

Ben Zeisloft
Cuban-American Artist Says New York Times Put Pro-Regime Content Into Her Op-Ed
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Coco Fusco — a Cuban-American artist who is critical of the island’s communist government — said that editors at The New York Times muted her recent opinion piece about widespread anti-regime protests.

On August 7, Fusco and Cuban political scientist Armando Chaguaceda wrote an essay debunking the claim that the American trade embargo is a leading cause of the protest movement.

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