11 Million People, No Power, 90 Miles Away: What's the Cuba Endgame?
In this episode of Hardpoints, Mike and Neal turn to a story that's quietly fallen out of the headlines: Cuba. Ninety miles off the coast of Florida, 11 million people are living on an hour or two of electricity a day. Oil imports have collapsed from over 100,000 barrels a day to nearly zero in three months. Surgeries are postponed, neonatal wards are cycling off, and the US Navy is running what looks a lot like a blockade.
The administration is giving Cuba the full Iran-meets-North-Korea treatment — sanctions on its energy, financial, and security sectors, and secondary sanctions on anyone…
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