‘Starving to Death’: Young People in Cuba Tell of the Toll of Trump Administration’s Sanctions
“We know that we are inside of a dictatorship,” says Paula. “We need help to change the government. It has been 70 years without us being able to actually do something about it, like 70 years of brainwashing, of indoctrination, of exile, emigration. The population that we have left, [is] not strong enough to face the government. If you don't have the basic needs covered, or at least [enough] power to sleep at night, you wouldn't have the strength to actually face the government.”
In the face of a regime that has no intention to change, and after decades of sanctions that have failed to produce the democracy they supposedly promote while starving Cuban residents, it’s time for the U.S. to confront the human cost.
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8.8.2026. 03:00:00