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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 ...
Mar 18, 2024 · March 18, 2024, 9:19 AM PDT. By Carmen Sesin. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets Sunday in Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago, demanding food and power amid a worsening economic crisis ...
- Carmen Sesin
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Jul 11, 2021 · Havana, Cuba CNN —. Thousands of Cubans took to the streets on Sunday to protest a lack of food and medicine as the country undergoes a grave economic crisis aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic ...
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Nov 15, 2021 · Pro-democracy activists in Cuba say they will take to the streets on Monday to demand freedom and basic rights, despite a move to prohibit demonstrations by the country's regime. For months, Cuban ...
- Isabel Van Brugen
Jul 12, 2021 · People rally near Versailles, a Cuban restaurant in the Little Havana neighborhood, in support of the protests in Cuba on July 11, 2021, in Miami, Florida. Thousands took to the streets across ...
- Chiara Fiorillo
Jul 12, 2021 · Cuba's sugar monopoly, Azcuba, said the shortfall was to blame on a number of factors, including a lack of fuel and the breakdown of machinery which made bringing in the harvest difficult, as well ...
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Jul 13, 2021 · Cuba's economy is struggling. Tourism, one of the most important sectors, has been devastated by the restrictions on travel during the Covid pandemic. Sugar, which is mostly exported, is another ...