The US Is Crippling Cuba With It’s Brutal Oil Blockade

A senior Cuban government official tells us he leaves home without power and returns without power. His son cycles 14 kilometres to work, as an electrician, and comes home to a blackout.

This is life in Cuba right now. Not for ordinary citizens, but for the people running the country.

Novara Media’s Steven Methven reports from Havana on the crisis gripping the island: rolling blackouts, collapsing buildings, medicine shortages, and a US foreign policy decades in the making that has reached a new intensity under Trump.