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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50636966

President Trump has tried to strangle Cuba by blocking its oil imports. But six months later, the island is finding ways to endure.

“We have not reached the point of having a humanitarian crisis precisely because of the strength of our society,” Mr. Fernández de Cossio, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, said in Havana’s Fidel Castro museum, where the lights were on but the air-conditioning had failed. “The intimate expectation in political circles in the United States was that Cuba could not survive beyond April. And here we are.”

July 27, 2026

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[–] 14 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I do wonder why Cuba didn't make greater efforts to turn to solar in years past. If they had, they could have avoided some, though probably not all, of this pain.

I imagine that it wasn’t about will but more about having a neighbor making life hard for them to trade for decades

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