Where To Stream Our World Season 2023 Episode 17
Windsurf Escape Cuba's Migration Crisis
- Aired October 13, 2023
- 30 Min
The Florida Straits are home to an invisible border that divides two very different worlds. Under six decades of a trade embargo, Cubans have built a way of life largely cut off from the resources of their US neighbours, just 90km away. But in July 2021, the effects of the pandemic, combined with an economic crisis and food shortages, triggered mass protests across the island on an unprecedented scale. A few weeks later began what is reported to be the biggest exodus of Cubans since the 1959...