A shipment of Russian crude delivered to Cuba is expected to sustain the island's electricity system and key economic activities for about 10 days.

Since January, the Trump administration has effectively blockaded nearly all oil shipments to Cuba, causing conditions on the island to deteriorate dramatically. Electricity is becoming more unreliable,

Live event info and tickets here. For more than 60 years, Cuba has survived on two seemingly contradictory economic strategies: leaning on friendly communist and socialist countries, and flirting with capitalism.

By Dave Sherwood HAVANA, April 1 (Reuters) - A technical team from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation arrived in Cuba this week to launch an "independent investigation," the U.S. Embassy in Havana said on Wednesday,

The announcement of a second shipment follows the arrival of a first oil tanker sent by the Kremlin earlier this week.

Havana makes a Holy Week ‘humanitarian’ gesture as Russian tanker is allowed to reach oil-starved island

Dozens of congressional Democrats sent a letter to President Trump on Thursday raising urgent alarm over an escalating humanitarian crisis in Cuba that has been made worse, they said, by the administration’s fuel quarantine against the island.

Experts don't expect military action soon. But actual regime change is complicated.