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Crackdown on these protests? reporter: in terms of a government crackdown, i can confirm that hundreds of people were jailed and there was violence both sides, from the protesters towards the state authorities and from the state authorities from the state with many police, but also plain clothes police officers towards the protests. so i ve been reporting in cuba for years and i ve never seen protests of this scale and i ve never seen violence on this scale. i think in terms of why it s happening now, i would give two reasons. first of all, it s economic. cuba, no country in modern history has been sanctioned for as long as cuba. cuba has been under sanctions since 1960 by the united states. those sanctions were very, very much increased under the trump administration and the biden administration, to date, has not removed any of those sanctions. and so this is a long-standing pressure cooker strategy which ....