Marissa Nelson | July 13, 2021 9:58 pm
The island nation of Cuba has seen unprecedented demonstrations amid the country’s worst economic crisis in decades — and nearly 60 years into the United States’ embargo on the nation.
President Joe Biden says he supports Cuban citizens in the wake of anti-government protests across the island.
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“This is totally unprecedented. Nothing on this scale has happened in Cuba in 62 years,” said Alberto Coll, a Cuban native with a background in U.S. foreign policy and U.S. relations with Cuba who is a professor at DePaul University’s College of Law.
Coll credits social media and the internet as factors that enabled the protests to happen.