PBS News Hour

Here's why so many Cubans are protesting the Communist Party

Police are out in force tonight in Havana, Cuba, after thousands of protesters rose up Sunday, taking to the streets across the country in the largest demonstrations against communist rule in a generation. Nick Schifrin begins our coverage, and talks to Lillian Guerra, a professor of Cuban history at the University of Florida, about the country's political developments.

Here's why so many Cubans are protesting the Communist Party

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