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How the U.S. Blockade Sabotaged Cuba’s Power Grid w/ Manolo De Los Santos

Manolo De Los Santos, the Co-Executive Director of The People’s Forum and a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research discusses the total collapse of Cuba’s national power grid that left the country without electricity for several days.

De Los Santos explains how the US’s brutal 60-year blockade has sabotaged the island’s power grid.

The US’s “vicious” blockade of Cuba is to blame for the collapse of its grid, says @manolo_realengo

Sanctions are a “maximum pressure campaign designed to make the Cuban economy collapse”

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Rania Khalek

Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.

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