00:00.
00:20On Sunday, 15,000 tons of Chinese rice arrived at the port of Havana.
00:26Cuban President Diaz-Canel called it a noble gesture of solidarity,
00:31saying it would reach millions of consumers across every province.
00:35Chinese ambassador Hua Xin called it the largest food aid from China to Cuba in recent years.
00:42And this is just the first delivery.
00:44Beijing has pledged a total of 60,000 tons of rice.
00:48More ships are coming.
00:51But rice, no matter how much of it arrives, does not fix a broken energy grid.
00:57Experts estimate it would take between $8 and $10 billion just to revitalize Cuba's power infrastructure.
01:04That money does not exist.
01:06And Washington is making sure it stays that way.
01:09Now here is where this story gets geopolitically explosive.
01:13The Trump administration is not stopping at embargoes.
01:17Pushed by hardline Cuban Americans in Florida,
01:20Washington is now actively turning up the pressure toward regime change.
01:24The same playbook used in Venezuela.
01:27But experts are warning, Cuba is not Venezuela.
01:31The Cuban military is more ideologically unified than Venezuela's was,
01:35more likely to fight back.
01:37And after decades of cooperation, first with the Soviet Union and now with China,
01:42Havana's intelligence and surveillance capabilities are considered among the most sophisticated in the region.
01:47In other words, if Washington tries what it did in Caracas, Havana will not fold the same way.
01:53So what you are watching right now is a slow-motion confrontation between three powers on a small Caribbean island.
01:59The United States, squeezing from the outside.
02:02China, feeding and backing from the east.
02:05And Cuba, blackouts, shortages and all, refusing to go quietly.
02:09On the other hand, the lights are going out in Cuba.
02:13Not for an hour, not for two.
02:15In some parts of Havana, for 22 hours straight.
02:18And while millions of Cubans sit in darkness,
02:21a ship carrying Chinese rice just docked in Havana Bay.
02:24And it is only the beginning.
02:25Cuba is in the middle of one of the worst energy and food crises in its modern history.
02:31Up to 64% of the entire island is being subjected to simultaneous blackouts right now.
02:39Last week, that number hit 70% during peak hours.
02:4470% of a nation without electricity at the same time.
02:50The Cuban government itself has described the energy situation as acute, critical and extremely tense.
02:59Those are not opposition words.
03:01That is Havana admitting it is on the edge.
03:04And the crisis did not happen in isolation.
03:07In January, the United States toppled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
03:13The moment that happened, Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba stopped.
03:18Cuba needs roughly 100,000 barrels of oil per day just to keep the lights on.
03:23Domestic production covers less than half of that.
03:26The rest? Gone.
03:28The Havana government has one word for what Washington is doing.
03:32Genocidal.
03:33Cuba is also still living under a U.S. trade embargo that has been in place since 1962.
03:38Layer the new oil embargo on top of that, and you begin to understand why some parts of this island
03:44look like a country at war without a single shot being fired.
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