Since the Trump administration imposed an oil blockade in January, the Caribbean island nation has been in the midst of a humanitarian and economic crisis.
After decades of covert operations, the CIA director has given the Cubans an overt ultimatum for change on the island.
We spent five days in Cuba in April to better understand the humanitarian impacts of America’s monthslong energy blockade... We came away shocked by the inhumane effects of the policy...until the Cuban people are brought to ruin...
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Every day that Cuba goes without fuel, the energy to keep a modern, civilised society truly functional, our species loses its humanity, and our “civilisation” continues its slow but certain decline.
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The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s threatened tariffs on countries that send oil to Cuba, but the crisis persists. Donald Trump issued an executive order on January 29 aimed at tightening the U.S. noose around Cuba’s neck.
President Donald Trump’s expansion of the blockade is the latest chapter in an aggression waged by 12 successive US presidents. It’s time to close the book.
It will probably come as a surprise to many of you that religious and church life in Cuba is thriving, and has been since the 1990s. It’s time for the U.S. to correct our own errors there.
For the first time in history, the president of Cuba sits down with a US outlet to share his thoughts on the future of Cuban socialism, the US blockade, and the economic difficulties facing the island nation.
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