Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Look, up in the sky, it's Richard Branson in a spaceship.

Yesterday, the man behind Virgin Galactic made a well-publicized trip to the edge of space.

Is it the start of a serious space tourism industry, or just a showpiece for adventurous billionaires?

And England's national football team almost won the European championship last night.

We look at the data finding that the squad for the first time in a long time is living up to its promise

and should still have a good run ahead.

But first... Cuba is experiencing its largest protests in nearly three decades. Across 16 cities, including the capital Havana,

thousands of people took to the streets this weekend,

chanting, we are not afraid.

Protesters demanded an end to the country's dictatorship

and more access to vaccines.

And they blamed the government for the current economic crisis,

with one saying, they're starving us to death.

Exiled Cubans in Florida also joined in, chanting freedom.

Yesterday, President Miguel Dias-Canel interrupted local television broadcasts with an address.

He mentioned ideological subversion, provoking destabilization. He encouraged pro-government forces to take to the streets. But ideology isn't really the point, that destabilization has come about,

at least in large part, because, as the old saying has it, a hungry man is an angry man.

I would say that the shortages the Cuba's suffering are probably worse than it's seen in more

than two decades. Roseanne Lake is our Cuba correspondent.

Grocery stores are empty. The queues outside them are endless for the few things that are in them.

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