This episode of The Daily centers on the severe humanitarian crisis in Cuba under the Trump administration's intensified sanctions, told through the lived experience of 25-year-old Gustavo Torres Armas, whose daily life in Havana has been reduced to a relentless struggle for water, fuel
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