US EditionCuba tourism and energy crisis deepens amid US fuel blockade
UN highlights that US oil sanctions risk essential services and worsen Cuba's tourism decline, with international visitors down over 50% since 2018, worsening socioeconomic hardship.
- Rolling power cuts, hotel closures, and suspension of flight routes have caused tourists to gradually empty out of Cuba amid a severe crisis.
- The US has blocked Venezuelan tankers from delivering oil to Cuban ports since January, and threatened other exporters with punitive tariffs if they continue deliveries.
- Tourism is Cuba's second major source of foreign currency after revenue from doctors sent abroad, and is vital for importing food, fuel, and other essentials.
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All over Cuba lack fuel, electricity and essential goods, but life seems to flow almost as always: one day at a time
Why the U.S. cutting off Cuba's oil supply is dooming its tourism industry
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.
Missing medicines, paralyzed surgeries, high food prices, impacts on public transport, tourism, and the functioning of schools and universities. In recent weeks, Cuba has reached a new critical point in a structural crisis that has dragged on for decades, after the interruption of regular oil supplies from Venezuela and the tightening of United States policy regarding fuel exports to the island.
Will Cuba Return to US Colonial Rule? - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity
As the White House threatens war against Cuba, I am reminded of the charming evenings my parents and I spent at Havana’s venerable ‘Floridita Bar, sipping a newly invented cocktail, the Margarita, with the renowned writer, Ernest Hemingway. `Papa’ Hemingway, who then lived in Cuba, loved this island with a great passion and wrote about it often. I feel the same way. I’ve been visiting Cuba since before Castro took over and feel at home in this s…
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