00:00Cubans are reacting to Washington's decision to extend its decade-old trade embargo on the island for another year.
00:08The move was widely expected but comes as Cuba faces severe shortages of fuel and food,
00:14rolling blackouts and rapidly rising living costs, making daily life increasingly difficult for ordinary people.
00:24It's the people who suffer here. We are the only ones who suffer.
00:28No one else suffers here. The leaders have electricity, they have power, they have everything.
00:35The people is the one suffering and everyday life is becoming more expensive with prices skyrocketing because of the lack
00:42of fuel.
00:45This energy blockade they have imposed now is the last straw. It's impossible to live like this.
00:54It's bad. The economy is struggling. We are struggling to make a living.
00:59Sometimes we don't even have enough money. But, well, we keep moving forward.
01:05Havana has condemned the extension, blaming U.S. restrictions for worsening the crisis.
01:10Washington, however, says Cuba's economic hardship is largely the result of poor internal management.
01:16The embargo first imposed in 1962 has been renewed annually by every U.S. president since 1978.
01:27Ieles, the police chief of Americans in Lexington as he said were counting andfirming the storm.
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