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Cuba has been in Washington’s crosshairs for decades. The Iran war is raising the stakes

  • Written by Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres, PhD Candidate, Political Science, International Relations and Constitutional Law, University of the Sunshine Coast
Cuba has been in Washington’s crosshairs for decades. The Iran war is raising the stakesYamil Lage/Getty

On March 16, Cuba’s national electricity grid collapsed for the third time in four months, plunging 10 million people into more than 29 hours of darkness. Hospitals struggled to keep generators running, water pumps shut down and refuse piled up on streets where collection trucks have sat empty for weeks.

The immediate cause...

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