Facing US oil blockade, Cuban man powers car with charcoal
AGUACATE, Cuba, March 19 - Juan Carlos Pino, a Cuban mechanic with an eighth-grade education, may have found a way to outsmart the U.S. oil blockade.
The communist-run island nation is thought to be facing its biggest test since the collapse of the Soviet Union amid a U.S. oil blockade. Grouped from 2 articles across 2 sources.
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AGUACATE, Cuba, March 19 - Juan Carlos Pino, a Cuban mechanic with an eighth-grade education, may have found a way to outsmart the U.S. oil blockade.
The fuel-starved Caribbean island is facing its biggest test since the collapse of the Soviet Union under a U.S. oil blockade.
The BBC's Will Grant reports from the island days after the entire national electric grid collapsed.
Oil prices were higher on Friday even after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington may soon lift sanctions on Iranian crude stored aboard tankers. Grouped from 2 articles across 2 sources.
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