There are no missiles raining down on Havana. But what I saw there was still warfare | Owen Jones

Guardian columnist Owen Jones reports from Havana on how Trump's threat of tariffs against countries supplying fuel to Cuba has effectively cut off the island's fuel imports for three months, causing the electricity grid to collapse and stranding patients like Maria, a 50-year-old terminal cancer patient, in hospitals struggling without power. Jones characterizes the fuel blockade as economic warfare that, while not involving missiles, is creating severe humanitarian consequences by crippling Cuba's basic services and infrastructure. The column frames the policy as part of a broader pattern of destructive American power projection that Jones argues breeds global resentment rather than advancing U.S. interests. Jones witnessed firsthand how the shortage is affecting Cuban hospitals and public services as the island's diesel and fuel reserves rapidly deplete.