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Frustration is growing in Cuba as residents wait for the government to unveil a plan for the new variable fuel prices.

Many also took to the streets to protest crippling power outages that have left many residents without electricity for 20 hours or more each day, as the United States this week stated its commitment to provide a US$100mil humanitarian aid package for the Cuban people.

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00:26Is Cuba going to turn to us and make a deal?
00:29No.
00:29I think so.
00:30I mean, look, I've been hearing about Cuba since I'm a little boy.
00:33They've been saying, what's going on with Cuba?
00:35And I think we'll be turning it.
00:37Marco's been very effective.
00:38And they're taking the aid now.
00:41They're taking the aid.
00:41They want aid.
00:42They need help.
00:43In the case of Cuba, it's a very different situation.
00:45There is no economy in Cuba.
00:47To the extent there's any wealth in Cuba, it doesn't go, forget about it, it doesn't go
00:51to the people.
00:52It doesn't even go to the government.
00:53The wealth is controlled by a private, by a company owned by military generals.
00:58They take all the money.
00:59They're sitting on billions of dollars.
01:01Okay?
01:01This is a country where people are literally now eating garbage from the streets.
01:05But they have a company that controls all of the money making there that's sitting on
01:0915, 16 billion dollars.
01:11So, it's a broken, non-functional economy.
01:13And it's impossible to change it.
01:15I wish it were different.
01:16But I believe, it's my personal opinion, you cannot change the economic trajectory of
01:22Cuba as long as the people who are in charge of it now are in charge of it.
01:25That's what's going to have to change.
01:27Because these people are proven incapable.
01:28I hope I'm wrong.
01:29We'll give them a chance.
01:31But I don't think it's going to happen.
01:32I don't think we're going to be able to change the direct trajectory of Cuba as long as these
01:36people are in charge in that regime.
01:47We're asking the right to put electricity.
01:51We're taking more than 40 hours without electricity.
01:54I live in a community where there are many older people.
01:58Many of them are encamadas.
02:00There are many children.
02:02The food is lost in the refrigerator.
02:04The only thing we can achieve is the situation that the country has.
02:09And, nothing.
02:11It's the motivation to go and see if, even if it's on the last lap,
02:17they put, even if it's on the last lap, three hours of electricity.
02:19While it's a specific event like this was today,
02:25it's fine.
02:27Because we're claiming our rights.
02:28We know that the situation in the country is chaotic.
02:34We have to work.
02:39We need to rest.
02:41We need to rest.
02:42We need to rest.
02:43I'm looking for the information from Cuba,
02:45but they didn't tell me any information.
02:47They didn't come out.
02:48So, I also have a child who is sick and I'm looking for gasoline.
02:53But, well.
02:55We need to wait a lot of news.
02:56We need to see the news.
02:56And the government will say,
02:57what will it do for the end of the day?
02:58We need to wait for the rent or tickets.
03:01We are very desperate.
03:03We don't have to order where to buy.
03:05It's also known that it's going to pay for bought.
03:12After that, that's why, that's where we can buy.
03:20Because we can't buy.
03:22The price of the fuel, whether it's a national or a dollar,
03:26will be the price of the transportation of the car.
03:32We hope that if it's better the price of the fuel,
03:34it will improve the price of the passenger.
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