Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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

It's the end of an era in Cuba.

Leadership is leaving the hands of the Castro family for the first time in six decades.

We take a look at the state of the country and its ambitious vaccine development program.

And if you thought that last year's lockdowns would lead to fewer road accidents, you'd be right,

according to early data from America. But if you thought that, in turn, would mean fewer fatalities on the roads, you'd be wrong.

First up, though,

The roads outside Myanmar's government offices are splattered with red paint.

Protests against February's military coup are unrelenting,

and demonstrators are trying to shame the generals.

The paint represents blood spilled,

as the army's campaign grows increasingly brutal and indiscriminate.

A week ago on state's television,

the announcement that 23 protesters would be put to death. Hundreds are already dead, but the resistance is undeterred.

Strikes and boycotts are strangling the economy.

On the country's fringes, rebel militias made of ethnic minorities that have fought the government for decades are banding together.

And external pressure is rising. Targeted international sanctions are bending together. And external pressure is rising.

Targeted international sanctions are stacking up.

This week, the UN's Human Rights Commission lambasted the army's crackdown.

The military seems intent on intensifying its pitiless policy of violence

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