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Videos circulated on social media also show protests in Bayamo, another city in the east. ... Sunday’s protests were the largest in Cuba since July 11, 2021, when island-wide demonstrations ...
HAVANA (Reuters) -Hundreds in Cuba's second-largest city, Santiago, engaged in a rare public protest on Sunday, according to social media and official reports, prompting Cuban President Miguel ...
Tens of thousands of Cubans marched in front of the U.S. embassy in Havana on Friday to protest longstanding sanctions in the waning weeks of the Biden administration, and as the island's ...
Cuban-Americans living in Miami organized their own protests to show solidarity throughout March. On 17 March, dozens gathered outside the Versailles waving Cuban and American flags. [ 24 ] On 19 March, protesters formed a human chain [ 25 ] while on 24 March, they organized a brief march across a park in Little Havana .
A reporter for BBC News stated that protest groups like the Ladies in White were seeking to raise their profile in advance of an impending visit by Pope Benedict XVI—who was expected to discuss the issue of human rights with the Cuban government—and that the Cuban Communist Party was accordingly seeking to clamp down on protest. [8]
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 ...
Verified videos of the protests show the demonstrators had direct political demands too, at times shouting “Freedom,” “‘Patria y Vida” (Homeland and Life) and expletives at Díaz-Canel.
[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]