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From KQED.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. As the U.S. blockade on oil to Cuba nears its fourth month,

the situation there grows more dire by the day, with rolling blackouts lasting up to 22 hours

and hospitals and sanitation services unable to operate. CIA director John Ratcliffe visited Cuba

last week, accusing top officials of allowing Russia and China to set up intelligence posts and demanding the government make fundamental changes in exchange for economic relief.

Ada Ferrer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of U.S. Cuba relations at Princeton, who has also written about her family in Cuba and the U.S.

in a new memoir called Keeper of My Kinn, Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter.

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