Cuba announced it was temporarily lifting restrictions on travelers bringing food, medicines and hygiene products into the country in an apparent acknowledgment of demands from anti-government demonstrators.
Thousands took to the streets across the island nation last weekend to protest chronic shortages of basic goods, curbs on civil liberties and the government's handling of a worsening coronavirus outbreak, marking the most significant unrest in decades.The rare wave of demonstrations against the country's communist government has been fanned by a deepening economic crisis worsened by the pandemic.
'Their revolution really has ended in a tragedy' 17:18In the aftermath of the protests, anti-government activists say that more than 100 people have been detained or are missing in a crackdown described as the largest in years.The US, Canada and the European Union have condemned the arrests of political activists and journalists, demanding their immediate release.
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