NPR s Asma Khalid talks with Ed Augustin, correspondent for The Guardian in Cuba, about the ongoing trials against hundreds of people who participated in mass protests in the summer of 2021.
NPR's Asma Khalid talks with Ed Augustin, correspondent for The Guardian in Cuba, about the ongoing trials against hundreds of people who participated in mass protests in the summer of 2021.
NPR's Asma Khalid talks with Ed Augustin, correspondent for The Guardian in Cuba, about the ongoing trials against hundreds of people who participated in mass protests in the summer of 2021.
General Maximo Gomez, a key figure in Cuba’s 19th-century wars of independence against Spain, once said: “Cubans either don’t meet the mark or go way past it.”
A century and a half later, the aphorism rings true. This downtrodden island that struggles to keep the lights on has now vaccinated more of its citizens against COVID-19 than any of the world’s major nations.
More than 90 percent of the population has been vaccinated with at least one dose of Cuba’s homegrown vaccines, while 83 percent have been fully inoculated. Of countries with populations of more than 1 million, only the United
survivors. thousands are sleeping in the streets and soccer fields. as many homes, schools and churches were damaged or destroyed. to make matters worse haiti must brace for a likely tropical storm this evening which could bring torrential rain, flooding and landslides. joining us now, nbc s ed augustin. ed, thank you for joining us. we ve seen some of the images coming out of haiti. can you give us a better sense as to how bad things really are there right now? reporter: things are bad. the death count has been upgraded substantially overnight to now over a thousand, 1,293 people now confirmed dead in this earthquake which, i should point out on the richter scale was even bigger than the catastrophic earthquake that haiti so infamously suffered back in 2010. this earthquake hit in the southwestern part of haiti.