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Are we expecting big moves in Cuba while the Iran negotiations continue to drag on?

Also, what's happening with Venezuela?

Let's take a look at this, my friends.

The relationship to the United States and Cuba is very tense right now.

It's been adversarial for decades.

Trump has been making some very clear statements that state of play in Cuba is going to change.

This is not going to continue on.

And under the Trump administration's maximum pressure approach,

there is now a renewed push to isolate the communist regime in Havana and to force

real change upon it. Like I said, after decades of just stagnation because communist can ruin

anything. So Trump has taken executive actions. There are sanctions and there is a clear

momentum of these things right now after what happened in

Venezuela. You know, Cuba is in the midst of a severe energy and economic crisis in 2020,

in 2026 this year. We've had blackouts lasting up at 22 hours, fuel shortages, widespread

protests, which of course they just cracked down on.

The island has run out of diesel and fuel.

It's exacerbated the cutoff.

This has been exacerbated by the cutoff of Venezuelan oil supplies after Majura's removal.

The U.S. has imposed tariffs on any country supplying oil to Cuba and ramped up sanctions.

Now, recently, this was really interesting.

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