Cuba clamps down on art, and protesters push back

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 A new law would have prohibited Cubans from making art without a license. Performance artist Tania Bruguera in Havana tells host Marco Werman how her arrest and the detention of other Cuban artists ultimately forced authorities to rollback restrictions on artistic expression.

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