在7月13日美国国务院新闻发布会的开场发言中，发言人内德·普赖斯的评论摘要如下：

“我想首先讲一讲在我们所在的这个半球的一些动态。

大家都知道，拜登总统和布林肯国务卿已将人权置于我们外交政策的中心，我想谈一下两个重要的问题，如我之前所说，这两个问题发生在我们的这个半球。

我们继续关注席卷古巴全国各地的和平抗议，古巴人民正在要求自由与人权。

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而作为回应，古巴政府试图通过断网、施暴、任意拘押数十位抗议者、新闻工作者和活动人士等镇压手段让古巴人民噤声。

对于古巴政府发出的“战斗召唤”以及在过去两天中我们看到的记录下暴行的图片，我们继续保持高度关切。我们呼吁保持冷静，并谴责任何针对和平抗议者的暴行，我们同样呼吁古巴政府释放因为和平抗议而被关押的人。

谈到委内瑞拉，美国对2015年委内瑞拉国民议会代表弗雷迪·格瓦拉（Freddy Guevara）被不公正拘留以及临时总统胡安·瓜伊多（Juan Guaido）受到骚扰表示强烈谴责。

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我们呼吁立即释放格瓦拉议员，并敦促国际社会同我们一道，以最强烈的措辞谴责对他的拘留。

委内瑞拉人民在一个进行广泛镇压和人权侵犯的政权统治下遭受了太长时间的痛苦，这个政权针对的是那些试图建立一个民主国家并让这个国家的领导人和机构对人民负责的人。”

以下是这次新闻发布会的英文全文:

https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-july-13-2021/.

U.S. State Department Spokesperson Price Says…

At the top of the July 13 Department of State Press Briefing, Spokesperson Ned Price comments included the following excerpted points…

“I wanted to start with developments in our own hemisphere.

As you know, President Biden and Secretary Blinken have made human rights central to our foreign policy, and I would like to address two important issues, as I said before, in our own hemisphere.

We continue to follow widespread, peaceful protests throughout Cuba as Cubans are calling for freedom and human rights.

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In response, the Cuban Government has attempted to silence their voices and communications through internet shutdowns, violence, and arbitrary detentions of dozens of protesters, journalists, activists, and other repressive tactics.

We remain deeply concerned by the Cuban Government’s, quote, ‘call to combat’ and by the images of violence that we have seen over the past two days. We call for calm and we condemn any violence against those protesting peacefully, and we equally call on the Cuban Government to release anyone detained for peaceful protest.

Turning to Venezuela, the United States strongly condemns the unjust detention of 2015 National Assembly representative Freddy Guevara and harassment of Interim President Juan Guaido in Venezuela.

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We call for the immediate release of Congressman Guevara and urge the international community to join us in condemning his detention in the strongest terms.

Venezuelans have suffered for far too long under a regime that engages in widespread repression and human rights abuses, targeting those who are attempting to build a democratic country with leaders and institutions that are accountable to the people.”

To read full English transcripts of this press briefing: https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-july-13-2021/.

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