"$40 Per Gallon On The Black Market" - Nick Shirley UNCOVERS Cuba's Fuel CRISIS
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Cuba’s fuel crisis has emptied Havana’s streets as locals whisper about communism, ration books, blackouts, and life on $14 a month while a two-star general hunts down journalist Nick Shirley for exposing the reality.
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| 0:00.0 | So let's go to one of the clips. |
| 0:01.6 | So what is this one video that you have here with you and the fellow on the car? |
| 0:05.1 | Yeah, so this is the intro to the video that's going to be coming out in the next phase. The video has not been dropped yet. The video's not been dropped yet. Okay. So people are seeing clips that's not public yet. No, you're actually the first person who's ever seen this. Okay. So what is this? What do we see in this clip? |
| 0:17.8 | So this I'm driving around with a tour guide and the intro, |
| 0:21.9 | and then you'll see some other clips building up to it. |
| 0:24.1 | And then... What do we see in this clip? So this, I'm driving around with a tour guide and the intro, and then you'll see some other clips building up to it, and then I'll show you guys the gas stations as well. Let's see it, Rob. Let's see it. What percentage of people do you think are suffering here in Cuba? The majority? The majority? What your thoughts on communism? What do they call me aism? Wow, so they're that public about. |
| 0:39.5 | Because really, |
| 0:41.2 | none of the gas stations are even in operation right now |
| 0:44.6 | because there's quite literally no gas. |
| 0:46.8 | We stand out like short thumbs here, |
| 0:48.4 | so they're wondering why we're here with cameras, |
| 0:51.0 | interviewing people. |
| 0:52.3 | They want to know what's happening and what people are saying. |
| 0:54.5 | That's why people are not talking. |
| 0:55.5 | Security. |
| 0:56.5 | They're asking why are we trying to leave the hotel early? |
| 0:58.5 | Cuba right now is facing one of the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. |
| 1:07.0 | Cuba's government is a one-party communist ruled country and they are facing massive food shortages, |
| 1:12.6 | daily blackouts and a lack of medicine, and right now a U.S. blockade is restricting oil and gas from coming inside of the country. |
| 1:20.6 | With communism and socialism on the rise in the West, I wanted to see what life in communism is really like firsthand as Cuba has been living underneath communism for over 60 years. |
| 1:30.3 | Upon arrival, I completed all required documents and had received a visa for journalistic activity. |
| 1:35.3 | However, once I landed, all my camera gear was seized and within 24 hours, I was planning my escape out of Cuba after their intelligence followed me all day, |
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