About this episode
The episode discusses the severe economic and humanitarian crisis currently facing Cuba.
Cuba is struggling through its worst economic and humanitarian crisis since the communist revolution, with the near-total collapse of its electric grid, severe fuel, food, and medicine shortages, and runaway inflation.
Topics covered
- Cuba
- economic crisis
- humanitarian crisis
- electric grid
- inflation
- food shortages
- medicine shortages
Keywords
- Cuba
- economic crisis
- humanitarian crisis
- electric grid
- inflation
- food shortages
- medicine shortages
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Cuba
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