White flagged: Cuba’s muted protests

The Intelligence from The Economist

• Episode: White flagged: Cuba’s muted protests
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• Duration: 00:19:31
• Published: 2021-11-16 11:49

White roses, white sheets hung from homes, even white t-shirts: a movement’s symbolic colour was not much in evidence after officials quashed national protests. Part of Saudi Arabia’s plan to wean its economy off oil is to entice lots of tourists; we ask how likely that is to work. And gut bugs beget a bigger bounty of blackcurrant berries.

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