From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story.

I'm Rosie Wright.

They thought that once they got rid of Maduro and stopped anything going from Venezuela to Cuba,

the next day the Cuban government would collapse.

That hasn't happened.

Two months have passed already, more than two months.

And that has not passed on.

Since the U.S. military captured the Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in January,

the oil lifeline from Venezuela to Cuba has all but dried up.

On the island, the effect are far-reaching.

The Sunday Times features editor Matthew Campbell was in Cuba last week, speaking to locals.

The pressure is on the Cuban people.

I mean, they are cruel and perverse.

No doubt about it.

I have no way of saying it in another way.

It's cruel and perverse what they are doing with the Cuban people.

And the reality for Cubans, power outages are frequent.

Tropical diseases rage. Food and medicines in short supply, school hours have been cut, and surgeries in hospital have been cancelled.

Things are happening that are out of people's control.

When you're not in control of a situation,

when you also don't have much information about what could be happening,

citizens end up at the mercy of doubt, uncertainty, and fear.

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