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By Lorena Cantó and Victor Escribano Beijing/Shanghai, Apr 29 (EFE).- Authorities in China have told the population to avoid traveling to other provinces ahead of Labor Day as the government introduced measures on Friday to mitigate the economic fallout of an ongoing outbreak that has caused a spike in Covid cases. China’s Transport regulator said …
By Lorena Cantó Beijing, Mar 29 (EFE).- China’s strict zero tolerance approach to Covid-19 is starting take its toll on the population, prompting protests, squabbles with healthcare workers and reports of people going to great lengths to avoid mandatory isolation. Until recently, the Asian giant kept the pandemic under control by effectively sealing off its …
By Lorena Cantó and Jesús Centeno Beijing, Feb 20 (EFE).- Politicized before they even began by a diplomatic boycott led by the United States, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics felt the effects of geo-political tremors in the international community but they also demonstrated the efficiency — and harshness — of China’s tough pandemic restrictions. In …
Cubans seek detainees and return of internet in wake of protests 2 minutes read By Lorena Cantó Havana, Jul 14 (EFE).- Three days after protests erupted across Cuba, the government has maintained heavy police deployment in the streets of the island, where there have been no new verifiable demonstrations and citizens seek detained relatives while trying to evade the internet blackout. The real numbers of detainees remained unknown Wednesday, since the authorities have not offered official data, while international organizations, activists and lists circulating on social networks report hund...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Sunday saw the biggest anti-government protests in Cuba in decades over the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. Monday was quieter. There are, however, reports of arrests. And the international community is speaking out in support of the right of Cubans to protest. To find out more about what's happening on the ground, we reached out to Lorena Canto. She is bureau chief in Cuba for EFE news agency. She joins us from Havana. Welcome to the program. LORENA CANTO: Hello. CORNISH: Can you talk about whether there have been protests in the last 24 hours, how big or small t...