Cubans brace for fuel shortages as US tightens oil blockade on Venezuela
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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The US Coast Guard pursued a third vessel off Venezuela’s coast this weekend. The US oil blockade on Venezuela is also sending shockwaves through Cuba. Also, President Donald Trump has appointed a US envoy for Greenland, a Danish territory that he believes the US should own. And, an NGO in France exposes holiday food scams just in time for Christmas. Plus, David Munyua becomes the first darts player from Kenya to make it to the World Championships.
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| 0:00.0 | The U.S. is going after Venezuelan oil tankers, but Venezuela is not the only country feeling the pain. |
| 0:12.1 | If Venezuela falls, Cuba then will be next. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:17.1 | And I'm Marco Werman, also on the show, the contributions of women in Russia from the dawn of the Soviet era to today. |
| 0:24.4 | The women are just constantly heaving this country called Russia on their backs and dragging it forward in spite of itself, keeping the place together in spite of itself. |
| 0:35.3 | The women in one Russian family bring that history to life. |
| 0:38.9 | Plus athletes marking major firsts from a climber in Colombia. |
| 0:43.7 | I was like, yes, yes, yes, please. |
| 0:46.0 | To a Kenyan darts protege. |
| 0:47.9 | No way! |
| 0:49.2 | No way! |
| 0:50.4 | What's going on here? |
| 0:52.4 | Today, here on the world. |
| 0:57.0 | This is the world. This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:59.9 | And I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for being with us today. |
| 1:02.2 | The U.S. is pursuing a third tanker bringing oil to and from Venezuela as tensions |
| 1:08.1 | escalate between Washington and Caracas. The U.S. and Venezuela are the main |
| 1:12.6 | actors in this standoff, but the blockade is wreaking havoc on another country. Cuba. |
| 1:19.3 | Cuba is dependent on Venezuelan oil, and people in Cuba are now going without even the electrical |
| 1:24.9 | power for so much as a ceiling fan to stay cool in the |
| 1:28.1 | sweltering heat, not to mention going hungry. We begin today with Jorge Pignon, who studies |
| 1:33.5 | Cuba's energy infrastructure at the University of Texas at Austin. Pignon described for us the |
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