Allan ChowMeanwhile. In Cuba
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink and one of the trip's organizers, attributed Cuba's crisis to U.S. sanctions. "Conditions won't improve significantly as long as there's a naval blockade and embargo making everything difficult," she stated. However, Cuba's energy crisis largely stems from decades of an economic model that has eroded the country's productive capacity.
On March 30, Trump made an exception allowing the Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin, carrying 730,000 barrels of oil, to dock at Matanzas, which experts estimate would only supply the country for two weeks. Russia has announced a second shipment.
