The U.S. has tightened its fuel blockade on Cuba, but the island refuses to surrender. Manolo de los Santos, executive director of the People’s Forum and researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, just returned from Havana and brings an on-the-ground report on how Cubans are surviving — and resisting — Trump’s escalating attacks. From surgeons operating by cell phone light to farmers organizing collective food distribution, Manolo details the “creative resistance” keeping Cuba alive. De los Santos exposes who is really behind U.S. policy — a small minority of Cuban-American hardliners, not the American people —and how Washington’s escalating threats are driven by a “desperate response” to the Cuban people’s resolve, insisting the goal is to force submission through economic strangulation. #breakthroughnews

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