The U.S. oil blockade has deepened a humanitarian crisis, forcing Cubans to lean on the island’s long tradition of community solidarity to provide a cushion.
“Cuba is a tale of haves and have-nots,” U.S. aid worker Brian Trascher told NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas.
Nearly five years in Cuban prison have taught me that the government won’t loosen its hold on power.
The aid boats were part of a grassroots effort to help Cuba as it struggles with a U.S.embargo
Cuban health care was once the pride of the island. Now the U.S. oil blockade is upending even basic medical care.
On the ground with Cubans suffering through the humanitarian crisis imposed by Washington
Danny Shaw, a scholar of Latin American and Caribbean studies and longtime supporter of the Cuban revolution, documents harrowing conditions across Cuba following the Trump administration's imposition of a blockade on fuel to the island. A humanitarian crisis has been manufactured by Washington to unravel the last vestiges of Cuba's revolutionary structure. Traveling from Holguin to Banes to Santiago this February, Shaw finds a population increasingly deprived of nutrition, with dwindling transportation options as gas runs low, schools are shuttered, and surging inflation makes life unaffordable. The US embargo has hollowed out once-thriving areas, pushing young people to migrate. Shaw explains how concessions imposed on the Cuban…Open