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Cuba's humanitarian crisis deepens

CGTN

North America;United States of America
00:46

On Tuesday, 17 February, a United Nations spokesperson highlighted Cuba's deepening humanitarian crisis triggered by a US-imposed fuel shortage.

Despite some humanitarian assistance from Mexico, China, and Russia, tourism is at a standstill, garbage is overflowing on the streets, many schools have closed, and there is a severe food and fuel shortage across the Caribbean island, home to nearly 10 million people.

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