Boys in an abandoned building in Centro Habana, a neighbourhood of Havana, Cuba, in December 2022.
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The island is facing the harshest economic conditions since the 1990s, prompting 224,000 people to leave in 12 months.
Cubans take to the streets of Havana in the largest anti-government protest in decades.
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Hardship is driving Cubans out on to the streets. A lot of the economic woe is due to US foreign policy.
With Raul Castro’s resignation as first secretary of the Communist Party, the Castro era is officially over in Cuba.
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Just as Fidel Castro’s 2016 death did not transform US-Cuba ties, his brother Raul’s exit from politics is unlikely to do so. But Cuba itself is changing. Eventually, Havana and Washington will, too.