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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 ...
Family members of 34 prisoners in Cuba who were jailed following anti-government protests in July 2021 have filed a petition with lawmakers seeking an amnesty for their loved ones. According to ...
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 ...
2021 Moldovan parliamentary election. Moldovan voters head to the polls in a snap election to elect new members of the Parliament. Results show the pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity, which President Maia Sandu has close ties to, as the winner with 52% of the vote. 2021 Cuban protests
[16] [17] The video of the song, often distributed by flash drive in Cuba, includes appearances by members of MSI. [18] [19] In April 2021, residents of Havana's San Isidro neighborhood prevented the arrest of rapper Maykel Osorbo amid anti-government slogans and chanting the song Patria y Vida, in whose video Osorbo himself participates. [20]
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 ...
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 ...