Immigration to Cuba was officially restricted under the US occupation in 1899 and into the Republican era, but the ban on Chinese laborers was lifted to boost sugar production during World War I.

GREEN: "We are living a nightmare. It's like a horror movie," says Claribel, a mother and grandmother living in Santiago de Cuba, the country's second-largest city.

In a now familiar scene, desperate families in Santiago and other towns in eastern Cuba took to the streets last month to protest inhumane living conditions and the abject failures of the ...

CLARIBEL: (Speaking Spanish). GREEN: "We are living a nightmare. It's like a horror movie," says Claribel, a mother and grandmother living in Santiago de Cuba, the country's second-largest city.