Donald Trump’s latest executive order allows the U.S. to impose additional tariffs on countries that ship oil to Cuba, deepening the economic siege on the island.

The result isn’t abstract policy. It’s collective punishment: blackouts, long gas lines, delayed medical care and families struggling to get through the day.

We’re in Havana asking Cubans about the new measures and about what life looks like when fuel, electricity and transportation begin to disappear.

Cuba has already been suffering increasing fuel shortages since the U.S. blocked all oil going to the island from Venezuela. In recent weeks, power outages in Havana have increased.

Stay tuned for more reporting from Cuba.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    13 days ago

    I was really expecting them to be asking people in Miami. Glad I was wrong.

    I’ve been to Cuba and I’m very worried for them. Cuba must live on, the blockade must fall.

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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    13 days ago

    “Economic siege” lol. It’s really difficult to have any empathy for this country, they seem pretty content with their leadership fucking shit up for about a century. It’s been under embargo since they tried to help the USSR start the nuclear apocalypse in 1960.