On Sunday, thousands of Cubans took to the streets to demand an end to the 62-year-old communist regime, chanting, “Down with the dictatorship,” and “We want liberty,” while waving American flags. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel — the face of the Castro communist regime — responded to the protests by announcing an “order of combat” against peaceful pro-democracy protesters, urging communist civilians to assault them.
Over the years there’s been no shortage of woke left-wing celebrities who have pushed Democrat policies and have also visited, vacationed, or promoted a film or their music in Communist Cuba — normalizing and spending their money in a country with a government that controls the flow of money, as well as brutalizes and murders its own people.
Here’s a list of 15 of those woke Hollywood celebrities.
1. and 2. Jay-Z and Beyonce
This April 4, 2013 file photo shows married musicians Beyonce, left, and rapper Jay-Z as they tour Old Havana, Cuba. Jay-Z is addressing his recent trip to Cuba in a new song. The rapper released Open Letter Thursday, April 11, after two Florida Republicans questioned if the rappers visit to Havana with wife Beyonce was officially licensed. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, file)
Rapper Jay-Z and his wife Beyonce are among America’s most woke left-wing activist couples. The yacht and jet-setting rap mogul-pop star couple backed Hillary Clinton in 2016, have donated millions to Black Lives Matter, spent years stoking anti-police sentiment, and reportedly helped bail out Ferguson protesters amid the riots over Michael Brown’s death.
The couple made headlines when they vacationed in Cuba in 2013, despite an economic embargo. One year earlier, political arrests in Cuba jumped to more than 6,600 — the highest it had been in decades, according to a report by USA Today.
3. Rihanna
In this May 29, 2015, file photo, fans take photographs of pop artist Rihanna, wearing a green scarf, as she is transported in an American classic car, after a photo shoot with photographer Annie Leibovitz at a building on the Malecon, in Havana, Cuba. This October’s Vanity Fair has Rihanna on the cover in Havana as celebreties keep flocking to Havana. Mick Jagger and Katy Perry have partied (separately) here over the last week. Mexico City’s hottest chef is scoping sites for a Havana restaurant. Usher and Ludacris have shown up. Jimmy Buffet’s played a private backyard concert for friends. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)
Pop superstar Rihanna — who has accused the United States Border Patrol of “terrorism” for using tear gas to stop illegal migration — visited Old Havana, Cuba, in 2015, so that she could participate in a photoshoot for a Vanity Fair cover.
That year, Cuba’s communist government issued a demolition order for every church in the Abel Santamaria district in the southern city of Santiago de Cuba.
4. Katy Perry
Meanwhile, pop star Katy Perry also visited Cuba in 2015, writing in an Instagram post that the communist country has “one of the COOLEST vibes alive,” and that its streets — filled with poverty-stricken citizens — is great for some fun photo opportunities.
“After seeing most of the world this is one of the COOLEST vibes alive,” Perry wrote. “If you like taking pictures, everything there will fit in a frame.”
“It’s a Disneyland for creatives minds,” added the singer, who encouraged her followers to “go there before it changes.”
Last year, Perry and fellow pop stars Pink, Billie Eilish, and the group formerly known as the Dixie Chicks, teamed up with Planned Parenthood for an abortion-themed ad campaign to push voter turnout in battleground states ahead of the 2020 election.
5. Steven Spielberg
Cuban President Fidel Castro (R) and movie director Steven Spielberg (L) greet residents outside cigar manufacturer Partagas November 6, 2002, in Havana, Cuba. (Jorge Rey/Getty Images)
In 2002, Hollywood director Steven Spielberg — who has donated millions of dollars to Democrats — was slammed for visiting Cuba, where he met with Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro.
In 2004, CBS reported actor Robert Duvall called out Spielberg over his visit to Cuba, saying, “Now, what I want to ask him — and I know he’s going to get pissed off — ‘Would you consider building a little annex on the holocaust museum or at least across the street to honor the dead Cubans that Castro killed?’”
“That’s very presumptuous of him to go there — I’ll tell him that,” Duvall added. “I’ll never work at Dreamworks again, but I don’t care about working there anyway.”
6. Mick Jagger
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