People in Cuba are living in the dark
The US鈥檚 oil blockade on Cuba means things are getting tougher
For more than three months, Cuba has been struggling under an oil blockade by the United States. It had been getting a lot of its oil from Venezuela, but President Trump put a stop to that.
People in Cuba have been living with all kinds of shortages for decades - food, medicine and of course, oil. This blockade though has made things even more tough and people say they鈥檙e exhausted. Santiago Vanegas Maldonado, from the What in the World team, brings us voices of young Cubans who are upset about how their lives have changed and the 麻豆社鈥檚 Jose Carlos Cueto Lopez, who is from Havana, takes us through the background to the blockade and what it鈥檚 like for people in Cuba.
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Presenter: Hannah Gelbart
Producers: Santiago Vanegas Maldonado, Chelsea Coates, Emily Horler and Maria Clara Montoya
Editor: Harriet Oliver
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