Around 700,000 people marched outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana on Friday, demanding an end to Washington's decades-long blockade of Cuba and calling for the island's removal from the U.S. State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Communist Cuba is enduring a worsening economic crisis that the government blames on US sanctions that have been in place since 1962 and were tightened during Trump’s first term

Tens of thousands of Cubans marched in front of the U.S. embassy in Havana on Friday to protest longstanding sanctions in the waning weeks of the Biden administration, and as the island's government worries about possibly tougher treatment under President-elect Donald Trump.

Cuban soldiers take part in a demonstration against the U.S. embargo and demands for Cuba's removal from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Dec. 20,