Thousands join rare anti-government protests in Cuba
Thousands join rare anti-government protests in Cuba

The biggest mass demonstrations for three decades have rippled through Cuba, as thousands took to the streets in cities throughout the island, demonstrating against food shortages, high prices and communist rule.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel blamed the unrest on foreign influence and said that ‘destabilisation in our country’ would be met with a ‘revolutionary response’.

Cubans are living through the gravest economic crisis the country has known for 30 years