{"id":4968,"date":"2021-08-03T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2021-08-03T14:55:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:55:31","slug":"the-reality-on-the-ground-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/the-reality-on-the-ground-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"The reality on the ground in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hear about the realities on the ground for people living in Cuba, and the destruction that the US blockade and Trump&#8217;s 243 additional sanctions have wrought on the Cuban people. The goal of the US unilateral blockade (voted against at the UN annually) is to deprive Cubans of basic food and medicine &#8212; and it&#8217;s working. On-the-ground reporter, award-winning journalist &amp; documentary filmmaker Reed Lindsay, who works with Belly of the Beast, an independent media outlet that covers Cuba and U.S.-Cuba relations, and Manolo De Los Santos, Co-Director of The People\u2019s Forum &amp; Researcher with the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, explain what&#8217;s really going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Video from <a href=\"http:\/\/@BTNewsroom\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"@BTNewsroom\">Breakthrough News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"747\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HM9LPy_qg38?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear about the realities on the ground for people living in Cuba, and the destruction that the US blockade and Trump&#8217;s 243 additional sanctions have<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/the-reality-on-the-ground-in-cuba\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":4969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3701,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/time-for-political-initiatives-against-the-illegal-u-s-blockade-on-cuba\/","url_meta":{"origin":4968,"position":0},"title":"Time for Political Initiatives Against the Illegal U.S. Blockade on Cuba","author":"Editorial Team","date":"February 12, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a9 Photo: Flickr\/eric It is time to unify and take a collective diplomatic route to calling out the U.S. illegalities against Cuba, Ramona Wadi writes. 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