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          I traveled to Cuba two decades ago. Fidel Castro was still president. The poverty was palpable. But the level of self-confidence, health care and education was higher than what I’d seen in neighboring countries.
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          Several older Cubans spoke German with me, having gone on exchanges to East Germany in their youth. When I probed them about their lives, it was clear that many wanted change in a notoriously repressive political system — and equally clear that they didn’t think change was coming any time soon.
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          That’s different today. Tourism has collapsed, along with much of the country. This could be the year the Cuban regime falls.
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          A chokehold on Cuba
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          Cuba, a Communist-led island less than 150 kilometers off the coast of Florida, has been a thorn in the side of the United States for nearly seven decades.
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          Ever since Fidel Castro led a revolution that brought him to power 67 years ago, many U.S. presidents have tried to bring the government down. During the Cold War, there was a botched invasion. The C.I.A. tried to assassinate him
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          at least eight times
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          . There have been countless economic pressure tactics and sanctions.
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          Now the Trump administration is betting that this is the Cuban communist revolution’s final year. It has cut off foreign oil shipments and several sources of foreign income that had kept Cuba’s economy and government afloat.
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          The impact has been stark: rampant inflation, gasoline shortages and lengthy blackouts. Garbage is piling up in the streets.
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          Predictions of the fall of Cuba’s leadership have been made before, notably after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which was long the island’s main benefactor. So far they’ve all been wrong.
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          But this time feels different,
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          writes my colleague Frances Robles
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          , who has covered the island for over three decades.
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          “The situation in Cuba has become unsustainable,” Frances told me. “It used to be a running joke that no matter how bad it gets, the regime survives. No one is joking now.”
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          How Cuba has survived
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          Cuba was in crisis long before Donald Trump became president. There were fuel shortages when I traveled there in the early 2000s; we saw bicycles on the motorway. Many of the colorful, aging Cadillacs, hallmarks of Havana’s cityscape and dinosaur reminders of the pre-revolution era, were mainly stationary.
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          But even after the Soviet support ended nearly four decades ago, the Cuban government always muddled through. It found three primary ways to survive:
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                After the left-wing revolutionary Hugo Chávez rose to power in Venezuela in 1999, that country became Cuba’s primary source of oil.
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                Cuba monetized its widely respected doctors. Cuban
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                medical brigades
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                serving around the world became one of the state’s top sources of foreign currency.
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                In the 1990s, the government opened up tourism, Communist-style. State-run resorts partnered with foreign tour operators. Sun-starved Canadians became a pillar of the Cuban economy.
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          Creaking electricity grids often caused intermittent blackouts in the past. The Covid-19 pandemic crushed tourism. But what makes the current crisis potentially more serious is that the Trump administration has targeted the ways Cuba has survived until now.
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          The Venezuela squeeze
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          When Trump returned to the White House last year, he pivoted aggressively to Latin America. The policy is driven by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, who has long dreamed of toppling the island’s Communist government.
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          Frances told me the critical moment in Cuba’s latest downturn came on Jan. 3, when the Trump administration captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and took effective control of the country’s oil production. Cuba was already part of the calculation. As my colleagues reported, one central reason for the strike was to
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          deprive the island of oil
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          Venezuela had been sending Cuba some 35,000 barrels of oil a day. Trump stopped that and threatened tariffs against any other country shipping oil to Cuba. Mexico, the country’s other main supplier,
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          also stopped shipments
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          .
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          Besides oil, Trump has also sharply reduced Cuba’s access to hard currency from tourism and the country’s
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          medical missions abroad
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          . Guatemala recently said it would send its Cuban medical brigade home.
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          It’s hard to say how long Cuba can last without imported oil. Some predict the crisis could come to a head within weeks.
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          “They’re trying to create a condition of extraordinary stress, similar to a war, in Cuba to try to shake loose offers out of the Cuban government,” Ricardo Zúniga, a former Obama administration official who helped lead secret negotiations with Cuba, told Frances. “But the Cubans have no vision for a plan that cuts them out of power.”
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          And it’s unclear who would lead the country if the government falls. Most opposition leaders are in prison or in exile.
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          But there now is a sense that “something has to give,” Frances told me.
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          “A lot of people do think this could be the year the regime ends,” Frances said, “either because of social unrest on the streets, or some kind of negotiated solution that the Cuban government is going to be forced to accept.”
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          Trump gave his State of the Union address yesterday — breaking his own record for the longest presidential address to Congress.
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          During the speech, Trump repeated his claims that the war in Ukraine wouldn’t have started if he had been president at the time, and that he has ended eight wars (
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          ). He also thanked Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, and Steve Witkoff, his peace envoy and longtime friend — two men who have driven the administration’s diplomacy.
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          Trump spent little time talking about Iran, even as he weighs strikes on the country. He said that Iran is developing missiles that could strike the U.S. and that he wants to make a deal. “One thing is certain, I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon,” he said.
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          The speech “was Trump’s best chance to describe his goals in Iran,”
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          writes. “He gave no vision of what America wants the country to become, or why it would be worth the risks to attack.”
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                under strain
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                , with about half of the country’s federal budget going toward the fight.
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                Estimates suggest that total
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                battlefield deaths from Russia’s war in Ukraine
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                could rise
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                beyond half a million this year
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                . By some counts, the toll could have already topped that figure.
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                Meta
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                plans to purchase
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                billions of dollars’ worth of semiconductors
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                from Advanced Micro Devices to develop A.I. technologies and power new data centers.
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                A new U.S. tariff
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                went into effect at 10 percent
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                , despite Trump’s pledge to impose a 15 percent rate. A White House spokesman said that the increase was
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                still being worked on
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                .
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                Russia’s domestic security agency is investigating Pavel Durov, the billionaire
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                founder of the app Telegram
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                , on suspicion of
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                aiding and abetting terrorism
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                .
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         CHINA
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                Around
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle;font-weight:700">
                100 senior Chinese military officers
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                have been sidelined or vanished since 2022,
               </span>
               <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                hollowing out the top ranks
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                and raising questions about the army’s capabilities.
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                China said it would
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle;font-weight:700">
                restrict exports
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                to
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                Japanese companies with ties to the defense industry
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                .
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle;font-weight:700">
                If China invades Taiwan
               </span>
               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                and cuts off its chip exports, that would cripple the U.S. economy. Here’s a
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               <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                deep dive on the looming disaster
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                that Silicon Valley has long ignored.
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         EPSTEIN FILES
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                The
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                arrest of Peter Mandelson
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                , the former British ambassador to the U.S., is the latest accelerant on
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle;font-weight:700">
                a political scandal
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                rocking the governing Labour Party.
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                Here’s a look at how
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               <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                Jeffrey Epstein ingratiated himself
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                with top executives at
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle;font-weight:700">
                Microsoft
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                .
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                My colleague Michael Shear, our chief U.K. correspondent, explains
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               <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="color:#286ed0;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                in the video below
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                how
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               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle;font-weight:700">
                the former Prince Andrew
               </span>
               <span style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;vertical-align:middle">
                ’s ties to Epstein led to his downfall:
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          When the governor of Latakia Province in Syria banned women who work in government offices and schools from wearing makeup, some saw the move as restricting personal freedom.
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          A Syrian influencer joked that the ban, combined with power cuts, was part of a conservative plot to get women to cover their hair and faces. “Men should come out in protest, not women,” she said.
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          Weeks after the order was announced, several women interviewed said the ban was not being enforced. Still, the decision tapped into a fear among some Syrians that with former Islamist rebels now in power in Damascus, the country could tilt in a more conservative direction.
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          Most countries across Central and Eastern Europe have their own form of beet soup.
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          Barszcz, the Polish variation
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          , is usually served as a clear, burgundy broth with bright flavors. It is sweeter and beefier than Ukrainian or Russian borscht.
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