US Blockade against Cuba, explained: What is it? What does it cover and when did it start?
As Cubans take to the streets, many in the US and around the world begin to wonder exactly what the US embargo against Cuba consists of and when it began.
MARIA ALEJANDRA CARDONA
REUTERS
On 11 July, protests began
across Cuba, calling for major reforms in light of severe food and medical supply shortages. Cuba’s leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel, the
first non-Castro to take power since 1959, blamed the protests on a
US-based social media campaign.
In an address on Monday 12 July, President Díaz-Canel did say that “