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A Cuban mechanic has converted his 1980 Fiat Polski to run on charcoal, a cheaper and more abundant fuel than gasoline since Washington cut off oil shipments to the Caribbean island in January. CBC | World News
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Cuba reconnects electrical grid, but millions are still without power
Cuba has reconnected its electrical grid across much of the country, the Energy and Mines Ministry said early on Tuesday, just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against the communist-run island, saying he could do anything he wanted with Cuba. CBC | World News
Read More »Trump expects to have the ‘honour’ of taking Cuba
Calling Cuba a ‘failed nation’ with a ‘nice landscape,’ U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he thinks he will have the ‘honour’ of taking Cuba, adding he could do anything he wants with it. CBC | World News
Read More »Western Cuba hit by major blackout that energy official says could last 72 hours
A blackout hit the western half of Cuba on Wednesday, leaving millions of people in the capital Havana and beyond without power in the latest outage to affect an island struggling with dwindling oil reserves and a crumbling electric grid. CBC | World News
Read More »Cuba names ‘terrorists’ on board Florida speedboat that ‘opened fire’ on border patrol
Havana says that the boat passengers were armed Cubans living in the US who were trying to infiltrate the island and unleash terrorism Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »The facts about Cuba in 60 seconds
Cuba is in crisis. The U.S. is blocking the country’s oil supply and Cubans are facing shortages of food, medicine and fuel. Here are the facts. CBC | World News
Read More »Tourism was once an ‘economic locomotive’ in Cuba. Now, the train is coming off the tracks
For decades, Cuba’s tourism sector has enjoyed a reputation as an “economic locomotive” among authorities who saw it as the lifeblood of the Caribbean island country’s economy. But the industry has been in decline since its 2018 peak, and the U.S. government squeezing Cuba’s oil supply has pushed the nation’s most crucial industry closer to its breaking point. CBC | ...
Read More »Why is the U.S. cutting Cuba off from the rest of the world? | About That
U.S. President Donald Trump is applying severe economic pressure to an already-strained Cuba mired in a food and power crisis. Andrew Chang explains why the U.S. is choosing now to cut off the country’s oil supply, and why, for Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, it’s also personal. CBC | World News
Read More »Air Transat aims to repatriate all its customers in Cuba within days
Air Transat is aiming to get all of its customers out of Cuba by next Wednesday, amid a call for Canadians to avoid delaying their exit from the country. CBC | World News
Read More »Cuba struggles as U.S. intensifies oil blockade: former ambassador
After U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to place new sanctions on countries selling oil to Cuba, Mark Entwistle, a former Canadian ambassador to Cuba, says the Trump administration is trying to inflict pain and throttle the country’s economy. CBC | World News
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