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0:011 secondThank you, Mr. President. 0:066 secondsColleagues, in 1979 then-President Reagan warned the Cuban people. 0:1616 secondsHe warned them. 0:1717 secondsHe said, "Their supposedly communist classless society will result in a sizable elite with 0:3232 secondsmany special privileges, and they have already emerged." 0:3737 secondsThe next year he spoke directly to the Cuban people again, saying, "Since 1959, you have 0:4545 secondsbeen called upon again and again and again to sacrifice, to make one sacrifice after another." And he asked the Cuban people, for what? 0:5757 secondsColleagues, for 67 years the Cuban regime has been telling the world that it...

Havana — How to conserve cellphone battery when recharging options are scarce; how to preserve food when the fridge isn’t working; how to cope with the heat when air-conditioners aren’t an option; how to generate power when the whole country has almost none left. These are the sort of tutorials that have made the Instagram feed of influencer Dayán Marrero indispensable to many Cubans as they try to adapt to the rolling electricity blackouts and fuel shortages that are increasingly part of everyday life on this Caribbean island. As the US-imposed oil blockade that is worsening the situation bites ever...