Cuba’s ongoing economic crisis
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🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: Amid worsening inflation, a scarcity of basic goods and a decadeslong U.S. economic embargo, Cubans are enduring some of their bleakest economic times since the Cold War. We hear from the country’s sugar plantations, where production has hit an all-time low. Plus, a look at why a medical strike in Mozambique is having a deadly impact and how extreme heat is affecting India’s workers.
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| 1:17.0 | Patients are dying as doctors are striking in Mozambique. |
| 1:22.1 | Hello I'm Leanna Byrne and thanks for tuning in to the Marketplace Morning Report and we're |
| 1:25.8 | live from the BBC World Service. Good morning. |
| 1:28.6 | More than a thousand people in Mozambique have reportedly died due to a lack of care during a health worker's strike according to a union leader in the country. |
| 1:36.1 | Here's the BBC's Shinganaoka. |
| 1:38.1 | Over 50,000 union members are on strike throughout Mozambique, resulting in long wait times and the sick being turned away from medical facilities. |
| 1:47.0 | The union of the health professional workers, Anselmo Machave, told the BBC that over a thousand people have died as a result. |
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