Following the country’s new 10% tax on food sales, Bella Thorne is appealing to foreign leaders, including President Biden, to help put a stop to the suffering of Cuban citizens.
The tax was introduced earlier this month by Cuba. It is aimed at self-employed people as well as small and medium-sized businesses in the food retail sector. The 24-year-old actress and singer, who is half-Cuban, is dismayed by the move.
Thorne highlighted her dissatisfaction with Cubans’ economic troubles in an interview with Fox News Digital, and she urged Biden to lead the charge in assisting those who will be most affected.
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‘Dictatorship has complete control over everything.’ Thorne highlighted the “brutal corrupt tyranny” that the Cuban people had been subjected to for “almost 60 years. Thorne specifically mentioned the use of Psiphon, a “free open-source internet censorship circumvention app, so Cubans can connect with one another to battle internet restriction by sophisticated firewalls,” according to Thorne.
The timing of the charge, according to the artist, is “catastrophic,” considering the country’s greatest economic crisis in decades, as well as coronavirus outbreaks.
“Human rights are not respected in Cuba,” she remarked. According to sources, the new tax will disproportionately affect low-income households.
“The fight for freedom [for Cuba] resonates deep in my heart,” Thorne remarked. “My heart goes out to you, and the raw anguish you are continuing to undergo,” Thorne wrote in a statement to the Cuban people.
Just know that as Americans, we care about liberty and stand with you because you deserve to be free. Don’t lose hope; the Cuban government will fall one day.
You will see a day when your longing for freedom like we do in America, will be fulfilled. Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects people of all ages.
Delancey Reinaldo Thorne, Thorne’s father, was a first-generation Cuban who was born on a military base in Key West, Florida. She said she learned Spanish as a child and was diagnosed with dyslexia in the third grade.
Last July, amid a recurrence of coronavirus cases and skyrocketing prices in the country, Thorne shared a photo of her father and siblings on Instagram with a lengthy text pleading for international aid to help the country’s people.
In Cuba, she didn’t know anyone from her family. She never had the opportunity to visit and meet them, not sure if they’re currently involved in the violence, or if they have food, drink, or medicine.
They clearly did not have any idea if they were safe or if they’d survived the virus that’s sweeping that lovely island. What does she know is that Cuba requires their assistance.
