{"id":318929,"date":"2026-02-18T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/the-real-cost-of-trumps-cuban-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:00:06","slug":"the-real-cost-of-trumps-cuban-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/the-real-cost-of-trumps-cuban-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The real cost of Trump\u2019s Cuban crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/skoTzd5l5FA\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"The real cost of Trump\u2019s Cuban crisis\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/skoTzd5l5FA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Cuba is in crisis. As severe fuel shortages disrupt daily life across the island, US President Donald Trump has declared Cuba is &quot;an unusual and extraordinary threat&quot; to US national security. The US president has cutting off the flow of Venezuelan oil to the island and threated to slap tariffs on any nation supplying Cuba with fuel.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>With no diesel to power collection trucks, rubbish is piling up across Havana. Extended blackouts are hitting homes, schools and hospitals, deepening what many describe as the country\u2019s most serious humanitarian emergency in years.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has urged Cuban leaders to \u201cmake a deal,\u201d escalating pressure as conditions worsen. So how far will Washington push Havana, and what could come next?<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s episode of TrumpWorld, Anushka Asthana and Matt Frei discuss the roots of Cuba\u2019s fuel crisis, the impact of US policy, and the political calculations driving events in Washington and Havana. We also hear from journalist Jon Lee Anderson, a writer for The New Yorker &#8211; with decades of reporting on Cuba he offers rare insight into the island\u2019s history, its leadership and its struggle to navigate this latest crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba is in crisis. As severe fuel shortages disrupt daily life across the island, US President Donald Trump has declared Cuba is &quot;an unusual and extraordinary threat&quot; to US national security. The US president has cutting off the flow of Venezuelan oil to the island and threated to slap tariffs on any nation supplying Cuba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":318930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[131146,132028,130206],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-318929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-crisis","tag-cuba","tag-severe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The real cost of Trump\u2019s Cuban crisis | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch The real cost of Trump\u2019s Cuban crisis for free, here on News ISC. 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