Faced with a tightening U.S. oil blockade and the consequences of its 67 years of suffocating state planning, Cuba’s economy is shutting down. The island is rationing fuel, going to a four-day workweek, imposing blackouts, and ending refueling for international airlines.
The crisis is “an opportunity and a challenge that we have no doubt we will overcome,” says the island’s deputy prime minister, Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, the grandnephew of Fidel and Raúl Castro. “We are not going to collapse.” Ludicrously, Fraga’s colleagues talk about accelerating a transition to renewable energy sources.
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