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The energy blockade imposed by Washington on Cuba has led analysts to wonder how long the Castroist regime can hold out. Schools are shuttered, people are hungry, and hospitals are unable to provide life-saving care, as Emily Mendrala, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Cuba, and María José Espinosa, Executive Director of the Center for Engagement and Advocacy in the Americas (CEDA), highlight in an article for EL PAÍS, in which the two experts warn of “a possible humanitarian collapse” on the island.
Donald Trump has repeatedly asserted that “Cuba looks like it’s ready to fall,” begging the question, who or what will replace the current government of Miguel Díaz-Canel in the hypothetical event of the regime being brought down? One name that has emerged is that of Óscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, the great-nephew of Fidel and Raúl Castro, a technocrat who has been suggested as someone who could fill the void in the same way as Delcy Rodríguez in Venezuela.
In other news this week, we spoke to Russian veterans at a center for amputees set up in Rostov-on-Don by a former soldier, interviewed French paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak about the demise of the Neanderthals, and spoke to Spanish physicist Manuel Lozano Leyva, who warns that “everything that science discovers can be applied towards creation or destruction.”
We hope you enjoy this selection of articles from EL PAÍS USA Edition.
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