A new flight of Cubans is begun as the island grapples with the worst food and medicine shortages in decades; as well as spiralling inflation.

According to US Customs and Border Protection data, more than 32,000 Cubans arrived at the US-Mexico border in March; nearly double the number from the previous month.
Claudia, her husband, and their small boy were desperate to flee Cuba and obtained visas to Mexico in Havana; the first step in a trip that put them in the hands of illegal smuggling networks known to charge migrants thousands of dollars for safe transit to the US border. The Cuban government claimed that the demonstrations were staged by Washington in order to destabilise the communist government.

In the largest mass trials since the Cuban revolution, prosecutors have accused over 700 people with sedition and civil disobedience.