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How Cubans are navigating the US oil blockade with rechargeable fans and solar-powered Chinese tricycles | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/05/americas/cuba-us-oil-blockade-electricity-creativity-intl-latam
9/5/26

How to conserve cellphone battery when recharging options are scarce; how to preserve food when the fridge isn’t working; how to cope with the heat when air-conditioners aren’t an option; how to generate power when the whole country has almost none left.

These are the sort of tutorials that have made the Instagram feed of influencer Dayán Marrero indispensable to many Cubans as they try to adapt to the rolling electricity blackouts and fuel shortages that are increasingly part of everyday life...

As the #US-imposed #oil #blockade that is worsening the situation bites ever deeper, Marrero and his compatriots are having to get creative. Farmers pasteurize milk over charcoal fires; commuters ride solar-powered Chinese tricycles; tour guides grind coffee by hand...

#OilForCuba! #EndSanctionsAgainstCuba
#news #politics #USpol #Cuba

Video - How Does Cuba Keep Its Schools Open Under an Oil Blockade?
https://peertube.world/w/vt96Xys3xa9gGf78Nh9vnu
Duration - 2:45

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Despite a U.S. #oil #blockade and #sanctions, 1.4 million Cuban students returned to school this week after a long, sweltering summer.

Families rose before dawn, prepared uniforms and packed school bags while navigating hours-long blackouts and shortages.

We take you inside Cuba’s first day of school — and the extraordinary effort families and teachers make to keep children learning.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

Video - How Does Cuba Keep Its Schools Open Under an Oil Blockade?
https://peertube.world/w/vt96Xys3xa9gGf78Nh9vnu
Duration - 2:45

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Despite a U.S. #oil #blockade and #sanctions, 1.4 million Cuban students returned to school this week after a long, sweltering summer.

Families rose before dawn, prepared uniforms and packed school bags while navigating hours-long blackouts and shortages.

We take you inside Cuba’s first day of school — and the extraordinary effort families and teachers make to keep children learning.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

Video - How Does Cuba Keep Its Schools Open Under an Oil Blockade?
https://peertube.world/w/vt96Xys3xa9gGf78Nh9vnu
Duration - 2:45

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Despite a U.S. #oil #blockade and #sanctions, 1.4 million Cuban students returned to school this week after a long, sweltering summer.

Families rose before dawn, prepared uniforms and packed school bags while navigating hours-long blackouts and shortages.

We take you inside Cuba’s first day of school — and the extraordinary effort families and teachers make to keep children learning.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

Video - How Does Cuba Keep Its Schools Open Under an Oil Blockade?
https://peertube.world/w/vt96Xys3xa9gGf78Nh9vnu
Duration - 2:45

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Despite a U.S. #oil #blockade and #sanctions, 1.4 million Cuban students returned to school this week after a long, sweltering summer.

Families rose before dawn, prepared uniforms and packed school bags while navigating hours-long blackouts and shortages.

We take you inside Cuba’s first day of school — and the extraordinary effort families and teachers make to keep children learning.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

Video - How Does Cuba Keep Its Schools Open Under an Oil Blockade?
https://peertube.world/w/vt96Xys3xa9gGf78Nh9vnu
Duration - 2:45

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

Despite a U.S. #oil #blockade and #sanctions, 1.4 million Cuban students returned to school this week after a long, sweltering summer.

Families rose before dawn, prepared uniforms and packed school bags while navigating hours-long blackouts and shortages.

We take you inside Cuba’s first day of school — and the extraordinary effort families and teachers make to keep children learning.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola #VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

Video - What Cubans Want to Say About Life in Cuba Today
https://peertube.world/w/vra3kseN9RJCERZqgH2Z5H
Duration - 5:16

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

What does this moment in Cuba mean to the people living through it?

For photographer Moník Molinet, the answer begins with a pause: asking people to stop, reflect, and write down the words that honestly describe their lives. In #Havana, amid an increasingly severe social and economic crisis fueled by suffocating #US sanctions, she invited people to put their own words to the moment they are living through.

These are their words. Their voices. Their moment.

Words for This Moment is a photographic project by Moník Molinet, created in Havana in July, 2026. The project is a series of 50 portraits, created in collaboration with Belly of the Beast.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#politics

Video - What Cubans Want to Say About Life in Cuba Today
https://peertube.world/w/vra3kseN9RJCERZqgH2Z5H
Duration - 5:16

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

What does this moment in Cuba mean to the people living through it?

For photographer Moník Molinet, the answer begins with a pause: asking people to stop, reflect, and write down the words that honestly describe their lives. In #Havana, amid an increasingly severe social and economic crisis fueled by suffocating #US sanctions, she invited people to put their own words to the moment they are living through.

These are their words. Their voices. Their moment.

Words for This Moment is a photographic project by Moník Molinet, created in Havana in July, 2026. The project is a series of 50 portraits, created in collaboration with Belly of the Beast.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#politics

Video - What Cubans Want to Say About Life in Cuba Today
https://peertube.world/w/vra3kseN9RJCERZqgH2Z5H
Duration - 5:16

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

What does this moment in Cuba mean to the people living through it?

For photographer Moník Molinet, the answer begins with a pause: asking people to stop, reflect, and write down the words that honestly describe their lives. In #Havana, amid an increasingly severe social and economic crisis fueled by suffocating #US sanctions, she invited people to put their own words to the moment they are living through.

These are their words. Their voices. Their moment.

Words for This Moment is a photographic project by Moník Molinet, created in Havana in July, 2026. The project is a series of 50 portraits, created in collaboration with Belly of the Beast.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#politics

Video - What Cubans Want to Say About Life in Cuba Today
https://peertube.world/w/vra3kseN9RJCERZqgH2Z5H
Duration - 5:16

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

What does this moment in Cuba mean to the people living through it?

For photographer Moník Molinet, the answer begins with a pause: asking people to stop, reflect, and write down the words that honestly describe their lives. In #Havana, amid an increasingly severe social and economic crisis fueled by suffocating #US sanctions, she invited people to put their own words to the moment they are living through.

These are their words. Their voices. Their moment.

Words for This Moment is a photographic project by Moník Molinet, created in Havana in July, 2026. The project is a series of 50 portraits, created in collaboration with Belly of the Beast.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#politics

Video - What Cubans Want to Say About Life in Cuba Today
https://peertube.world/w/vra3kseN9RJCERZqgH2Z5H
Duration - 5:16

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

What does this moment in Cuba mean to the people living through it?

For photographer Moník Molinet, the answer begins with a pause: asking people to stop, reflect, and write down the words that honestly describe their lives. In #Havana, amid an increasingly severe social and economic crisis fueled by suffocating #US sanctions, she invited people to put their own words to the moment they are living through.

These are their words. Their voices. Their moment.

Words for This Moment is a photographic project by Moník Molinet, created in Havana in July, 2026. The project is a series of 50 portraits, created in collaboration with Belly of the Beast.

#NoWarOnCuba #USHandsOffCuba #OilForCuba! #CubaIsNotAlone #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo #CubaSolidarity #LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#politics

Video - "We Can Do Terrorism — Just Don't Say It In Public"
https://peertube.world/w/1QmQZT2a3Kv3GXfNsjqEsF
Duration - 2:51

[a #video on #Peertube about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

#RaúlCastro was indicted for the shoot-down of two Brothers to the Rescue planes 30 years ago. The group’s leader was a former #CIA #terrorist who claimed to have renounced violence, but never did according to former #Cuban intelligence agent René González.

#NoWarOnCuba
#USHandsOffCuba
#OilForCuba!
#CubaIsNotAlone
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#politics #USpol

Video - Why is the #US Indicting Raúl Castro 30 Years After the Fact?
https://peertube.world/w/7oTaQKVNf4YBYRYhsbBQhd
Duration - 3:41

[a #video about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

The Justice Department has indicted #RaúlCastro for something that occurred three decades ago — and the Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says he’s not sure why.

The reason the #Trump administration is targeting Castro 30 years after the shooting down of the #BrothersToTheRescue planes has little to do with the pursuit of justice and everything to do with the pursuit of regime change in Cuba.

#NoWarOnCuba
#OilForCuba!
#CubaIsNotAlone
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#CubaNoEstáSola
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#news #politics #USpol

Video - Why Only Miami Celebrates Cuba’s “Independence Day”
https://peertube.world/w/im6s6weUkCjczX4UVBnh4f
Duration - 2:46

[a #video about #Cuba from the #news collective #BellyOfTheBeast]

May 20 is celebrated in Miami as Cuba’s “Independence Day.” In Cuba, people don’t care about the date because it wasn’t really about Cuban independence. It was about #US control over Cuba.

On May 20, 1902, a four-year US military occupation ended and Cuba officially became a republic. But Cuba was still controlled by the United States. For example, Cuba’s Constitution allowed the US to invade militarily whenever it wanted. It’s no surprise then that the #Trump administration chose May 20 to announce an indictment against Cuba’s former President #RaúlCastro, which could be used as a pretext to try to take control of Cuba, just as it did more than a century ago.

#NoWarOnCuba
#OilForCuba!
#CubaIsNotAlone
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#news #politics #USpol

They Delivered Medicine to Children in Cuba — Now They're Under Investigation
https://belly-of-the-beast.kit.com/posts/they-delivered-medicine-to-children-in-cuba-now-they-re-under-investigation

May 29, 2026
[weekly newsletter about #Cuba from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

Also:

• “#Sanctions Kill. I Have Watched Them Do It.”
• Congressional Black Caucus: “Enough is Enough”
• China Delivers Aid in Boatloads; #US in “Wheelbarrows”
• Ex-Intelligence Officials Reject Cuba Threat Narrative
• Ex-NATO Analyst: "Absurd” to Claim Cuba Would Attack US
• Cuba’s Top Diplomat Calls Out #MarcoRubio on Fox News
• This Week in Cuba Collapse Forecasting
• #CubanAmerican Hardliners Obsess about Cuba, Ignore Constituents
• Thousands March in #Havana to Support #RaúlCastro
• “You Can’t Run a Society Without #Oil”
• Cuba Publishes Holy Week Amnesty List
• Join Us for Our June 4 #NYC Premiere!

#NoWarOnCuba
#OilForCuba!
#CubaIsNotAlone
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#politics #USpol

Tens of Thousands Rally in Havana Against US Aggression as Cuba Prepares Citizens for #War
“Here we are prepared to fight imperialism,” said Cuban lawmaker #MarielaCastro, daughter of Raúl Castro. “Cuba is a small and poor country, but one with experience confronting US imperialism.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cuba-prepares-for-us-war

from #CommonDreams
May 22, 2026

Tens of thousands of Cubans rallied Friday in Havana to denounce the #Trump administration’s indictment of former President #RaúlCastro and threats to attack the island nation, whose socialist government has been preparing its citizens to defend their homeland and revolution against #US aggression.

“No disrespect is shown to the heroes of the homeland!” Cuban President #MiguelDíazCanel said as people flooded the streets outside the US Embassy in #Havana. “History and traditions are not insulted without a response! That does not happen in #Cuba."

#OilForCuba!
#CubaIsNotAlone
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#news #politics #USpol

#Video - Why a Grammy Winner Says You Can’t Understand Jazz Without Cuba
https://peertube.world/w/3sepoddXTodz5pPfwDAGZg

[from the #news collective #bellyofthebeast]

Arturo O’Farrill is a #Grammy-winning pianist, composer and one of the most influential voices in #AfroCubanJazz. But for him, #Cuba is more than just an inspiration — it’s home, history and identity.

In #Havana, during the 41st International #Jazz Plaza Festival, Arturo told us why #jazz cannot be understood without Cuba, why #AfroCuban roots remain central to the music’s evolution, and why #cultural exchange persists despite the #US’s decades-long economic war on Cuba.

Arturo has been returning to Cuba year after year for over two decades, honoring his heritage, and using #music as a bridge between Cuban and US citizens - despite the personal cost of taking political positions.

“This is Cuba,” he says. “I come here to learn how to live.”

#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#DizzyGillespie #LatinJazz #culture #LatinAmerica #USpol