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.

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