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In 2020, the economic situation in Cuba worsened. The Cuban economy contracted by 10.9% in 2020, and by 2% in the first six months of 2021. [11] The economic crises emerged from a combination of factors, [46] [47] including reduced financial support (subsidized fuel) from Cuba's ally Venezuela, the United States embargo against Cuba and United States sanctions (tightened by the Trump ...
The July 11 protests in Cuba were unprecedented. AP Photo/Ramon EspinosaThousands of Cubans took to the streets across the island around mid-July 2021 in a rare mass expression of dissent in a ...
March 6 – Seven migrants are stopped at Islamorada and one at Duck Key in the Florida Keys. The U.S. has returned 87 people from Cuba trying to reach Florida by sea since October 1, 2020. [14] March 31 – Russia and Cuba begin two days of high-level diplomatic talks. [15]
Three years after the largest anti-government protests in Cuba, at least 670 Cubans are still in prison for participating in the demonstrations on July 11, 2021, some of them serving sentences of ...
The systematic violations of human rights by the Cuban government in response to the demonstrations in July of 2021 have fueled the largest exodus of Cubans to the United States and other ...
On 11 July 2021, a series of demonstrations began in Cuba against the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel.The first protests erupted in San Antonio de los Baños, near Havana, and in Palma Soriano, in the province of Santiago de Cuba, with people chanting "Patria y Vida", as well as other slogans and criticizing the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the island and the subsequent ...
Sunday’s protests were the largest in Cuba since July 11, 2021, when island-wide demonstrations swept through the island. It ended with a heavy crackdown by authorities. There are 675 protesters ...
[6] [10] On August 10, he was arrested in Havana during part of his performance Drapeau. In the work, he wore a Cuban flag draped over his shoulders, in defiance of a 2019 law dictating how the flag could be used. [3] [11] [12] On March 1, 2020, Otero Alcántara was arrested in Havana on the charges of defiling patriotic symbols and property ...