Cuba: Embassy in Paris attacked with Molotov cocktails | Abroad

Earlier this month, thousands of Cubans demonstrated in various cities for freedom, against oppression and (food) shortages in the country. Such protests hadn’t happened in decades in the Caribbean state. Cuban exiles and sympathizers also protested abroad, for example in Washington.

The US imposed sanctions against specific members of the island’s communist government. They are retaliatory measures against people the US government holds responsible for the repression of activists and the arrest of “hundreds of protesters simply for exercising their human rights of freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.”

The Cuban economy is suffering from the collapse of tourism during the corona pandemic and from US sanctions. There is a shortage of food and medicine. The number of corona infections in the country is also rising again.

The authoritarian government has described the protests as violent unrest instigated by the US to divide Cubans.

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