Blackouts, scarcity and survival—Assad’s Cuba update

“If the U.S. could blockade the sun, they would.” — Shoman. BELIZE CITY, Wed. Mar. 4, 2026    For roughly a third of the United States’ more than 60-year economic embargo on Cuba, leading Belizean historian Assad Shoman has made the Caribbean island his home—long enough to witness its recurring cycles of external pressure, scarcity, […]