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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 ...
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 ...
On 12 January 2021, then-U.S. President Donald Trump added Cuba to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, implementing a new series of economic sanctions on the country. [7] The government of Cuba had hoped that Joe Biden would remove Cuba from the list. However, Biden has entirely avoided the issue and, according to Cuban governmental sources ...
[5] [6] Since its founding in 2018, the San Isidro Movement has held a variety of protests including those by performative artist Otero Alcántara who performed a striptease to draw attention to the lack of privacy when accessing the internet, created the Museum of Dissidence in Cuba, as well as a protest to criticize the removal of a bust of ...
It has been described as the largest mass emigration in Cuba's history. It is re imated that mode than 850,000 Cubans sought refuge into the United States between 2021-2024, depleting Cuba's population by nearly 8%. It is estimated that 50% of the new Cuban arrivals between 2021-2024 (425,000), have settled in Miami-Dade County. [1] [2] [3]
HAVANA (Reuters) -A proposal by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for mass deportation of immigrants living illegally in the United States that may include Cubans is unrealistic and unfair, Cuba's ...
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 ...
A day after the U.S. Senate dismissed articles of impeachment against him, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas delivered remarks to Cuban Americans at the White House on Thursday ...