In the face of an accelerating US pressure campaign, deteriorating public utilities, and economic inefficiency, Cuba’s communist government on June 18 announced sweeping economic reforms, the largest privatization since before Fidel Castro’s revolution in 1959.
Since January, the Trump administration has made repeated threats of military action, and its sanctions and an oil blockade have been compounding Cuba’s existing fuel shortages, power outages, and scarcity of food and medicines.
Amid the mounting internal and external pressure, faith communities have been speaking up and meeting with both the US and Cuban governments.
