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Anyone looking at Cuba during 2023 and 2024 was immediately struck by two things.First, the economy became significantly worse than its even-then weak performance in the preceding years (except the first COVID-19 year of 2020, which was already disastrous, as for most places in the world).The last six years of growth in Cuba starting from before 1 the impact of the two main causes of today's terrible economic situation, the greatly strengthened Trump/Biden Blockade after 2018 and then COVID-19, were: 2018, +2.2%; 2019, -0.2%; 2020, -10.9%; 2021, +1.3%; 2022, +1.8% (Anuario Estadstica de Cuba 2022: 147, Table 5.1); and 2023, -1.9%. 2 Second, this very bad economy, combined with a number of temporary or permanent changes in the emigration laws of Cuba and immigration laws of a number of receiving countries, led to by far the largest emigration of Cubans since the Revolution 65 years ago.On Friday 19 July 2024, the head of Cuba's national statistics office stated in a session of Cuba's National Assembly that the country's population went from 11,181,585 on 31 December 2021, to 10,055,968 on 31 December 2023.The large majority

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