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Doctors, Tourism, Tobacco: Cuba Buckling Under Us Pressure
US sanctions and oil blockade have caused a 70% drop in tourism revenue and halted Cuba's $7 billion medical mission income, severely straining its economy.
- Earlier this month, Cuba faced a US-imposed oil blockade that cut Venezuelan supplies for a month and forced emergency fuel rationing, crippling tourism and tobacco incomes.
- Under sustained US pressure, countries like Guatemala and Antigua and Barbuda have ended medical payment deals, while Cuban medical missions generated about $7 billion last year, deploying 24,000 health professionals.
- The tourism sector employs more than 300,000 people, and revenues fell 70% between 2019 and 2025, while Cuban cigars sales totaled $827 million in 2024 and the 2025 festival auction was canceled, exposing economic strain from fuel dependence.
- Havana residents report rolling blackouts and transport nearing paralysis, private petrol stations closed, and widespread cancellations disrupting daily life.
- With official remittances cut off, Moscow-based Izvestia reported Russia plans to supply oil as humanitarian aid, amid Cuba's fuel shortfall and reliance on travelers from Miami.
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by Mariagrazia While the world speaks of the chaos that surrounds us created to distract public opinion from the increasingly uncomfortable truths about the abuses and crimes of the elites that govern us, Cuba slowly dies. It is not an exaggeration my, but simply the denunciation of what does not appear in the newspapers. The will to "stroke" the country's economy so proudly anti-Yankee and block trade between the island and its allies historian…
·Rome, Italy
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The main source of foreign currency for the island is the sending of medical missions abroad.
·Montreal, Canada
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Total News Sources65
Leaning Left8Leaning Right7Center19Last UpdatedBias Distribution56% Center
Bias Distribution
- 56% of the sources are Center
56% Center
L 23%
C 56%
R 21%
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