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And right now we have breaking news. President Trump declaring a national emergency over threats by Cuba. The president claimed the policies and practices of the Cuban government are an extraordinary threat to US security. Most of the media outlets who cover Cuba, who report on Cuba, they do it from the outside. We've traveled to Avana where many go without power. They maybe spend a week in Cuba and they go back thinking that they really understand what is going on here. You're in the ground working inside of Cuba telling the story of the Cubans and trying to be civilized uh the stories
that you can find anywhere else. El Malik Reyes is the only trans athlete to be officially recognized for the Cuban sports league. The path wasn't easy. Belly of the beast is a name that provoked a different kind of reactions in people. For some people the beast is the US uh government. Some people the beast is Cuban government. For some people the beast is the sanctions. Some people the beast is capitalism. For us uh to name it in a way is just try to um visibilize that we are working from inside.
One of the goals of the san is trying to defund that the government trying to defund that the public sector at the same time they are putting money in the private sector here in Cuba. The problem is that the private sector don't pay for the trash collection, don't pay for education, don't pay for healthcare. of the V is like other media um labs that are also working inside of Cuba. They need to prepare to be able to work in the middle of this black house. The critical thing right now in Cuba is to have access to electricity. And the way to have access to electricity is just this battery storage that they sell. And if you have enough money in Cuba, you can buy them in um private store in some way that's also
create a bubble because like at work we have electricity but then we come back home and the reality hit us. You are living under dark conditions. You are also reporting that conditions. It is kind of a cycle than ever ends. We are here on the streets of Havana to ask Cubans how they feel after Trump's latest announcement. Cubid looks like it's ready to fall. I don't know how they if they're going to hold up. Suffice it to say, you know, Cuba is a disaster. It's it's run by incompetent seen now men. Everybody knows that Marco Rubio parents are from Cuba. But for me, it's really difficult to connect to someone who actually are doing the best he cans in
order to make the people in Cuba suffer because everybody knows that sanctions only affecting the people in Cuba, the ordinary Cubans. So how you can do that and at the same time saying that you love the country that you love the people inside of the country. I think that he was trying to send a message to the Cubans who live in Cuba and that's why he did it in Spanish. He go out of the streets and did interviews and the most of the people that we interviewed they haven't seen the video. Most of the times Cubans are just trying to uh going through the day. They don't have time to spend on social media. Also, they probably don't have enough charge in the funds because the black house can last forever. So, they are not
really paying attention what US politicians are talking to Cubans. There's no oil blockade on Cuba, per se. Here's what's happening with Cuba. Okay, Cuba used to get free oil from Venezuela. So, the only blockade that's happened is the Venezuelans have decided, we're not giving you free oil anymore. Marco Rubio is saying that it's not such a thing like a oil blockade in Cuba in a room full of Jordanist and no one is saying like wait a minute what are you talking about no one is doing a following question to that if no one is doing that job. We think that it's our responsibility to do that job. And so far we have been exhausted because so many lies, so many misinformations has been spread that for example everyone is
repeating that Cuba is a threat to the United States national security. Communist Cuba which has been a deadly threat. But this is also about America's national security. We know right that they have allowed terrorists to operate. We are giving to people context. We are not just repeating opinions. We are not doing propaganda. Our job is presenting facts. Maybe you disagree with our videos. But you can say that we are lying or we are omitting. I think that there is a huge gap between the people who were alive before 1959 revolution and after. For my grandma, the experience that they have about Cuba and about capitalism is pretty different from the experience that people from
my generation are expecting. But I think like the main thing that makes both generations comes together is being hidden crisis after crisis. In saturate afternoon and as you see the streets are empty. Nothing is happening. Cuba used to be different, but it was also when the first administration of Donald Trump start to screwed the sanctions on Cuba. We haven't been able to come back to the joy. We don't have the solutions in our own hands. We can manage that. So, people get frustrated. Young people get frustrated. and the cherry on the top of that it's really difficult to escape the
propaganda machine that is coming from everywhere. They have three narrative. The first one is that Cuban government is the guilty one. Whatever is happening in Cuba, if you are suffering is because the Cuban government. Cuba for 67 years has been a communist dictatorship. The second one is like Cuba itself is the fail state. And Cuba is in terrible shape for the simple reason that its economy like all such uh communist or socialist economies has failed. Failed utterly. And the third point is like United States, we are the good guys. We want to save you guys. You're going to have freedom.
What would a prosperous, successful Cuba mean for the American people? I envision a free Cuba as kind of like the Israel of this hemisphere. The best way to keep independent editorial is done accepting money not from the Cuban government, not from the US government. We just receive donations from individuals through Patreon and we also do production services. So that's the way that we trying to funds our journalism. Thanks for watching. Leave us a like or a comment to let us know what you thought about anything we covered this week. The links to our social media and our newsletter are in the description.
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