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The country experienced what was described as the worst living crisis since the early 1990s. [5] The government blames the U.S. embargo, which it refers to as a "blockade", imposed since the arrival of the Communist Party to power but intensified in 2021 with Cuba's addition to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. Cuba accused the U.S. of ...
The Cuban exodus is the mass emigration of Cubans from the island of Cuba after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Throughout the exodus, millions of Cubans from diverse social positions within Cuban society emigrated within various emigration waves, due to political repression and disillusionment with life in Cuba.
Santiago Alpizar, an immigration lawyer who spearheaded a similar project to identify people living in the United States who were involved in suppressing dissent in Cuba, said the new parole ...
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets Sunday in Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago, demanding food and power amid a worsening economic crisis that has left many everyday Cubans with ...
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 ...
James Clifford Kent adds to the worldwide debate on how best to deal with migration by explaining why Cuba is seeing a huge number of people leaving the island country as they search for better ...
It has been described as the largest mass emigration in Cuba's history. It is estimated that nearly 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]
However, Cuba’s authoritarian government clings to the hollow glory of the revolution, even though it did little but condemn the island to isolationism, constant economic shortages and ...