‘If the Cuban government were to collapse, that would be a security threat to the United States’

For Spotlight, François Picard is pleased to welcome Emily Morris, live from Havana, Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London’s Institute of the Americas. The fuel embargo has shifted from an abstract policy dispute into something felt in the grain of everyday life. This is not simply “shortage,” but a sequence of events: curtailed events, warnings of deeper power cuts, and above all a transport squeeze that limits mobility, work, and institutional routines like universities moving remotely.