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Cuba economic crisis and political crackdown pushes many to immigrate

Cuba is experiencing the largest exodus of people this century, driven mainly by a worsening economy. The government blames the US economic embargo. But numbers of those fleeing the Caribbean island have also increased since a crackdown on dissent last year. Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman has this special report from Cuba’s capital Havana. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Cuba #CubaEconomicCrisis #Havana