Cuba is running out of time. We need fuel now to save lives

The Guardian | Thursday, 30 April 2026 | Click here for original article

With the US blockade cutting off oil, the island’s healthcare has been wrecked, access to clean water lost and babies put at risk

Access to fuel remains a determining factor for whether humanitarian action can operate at all

The response had already mobilised $24m (£18m) before the energy crisis intensified. Yet sustaining and scaling up that effort depends on a basic condition: fuel to move aid through ports, across provinces and into communities.


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