Ada Ferrer

Well, they are down to fumes.

He's assuming there's a difference between a friendly takeover and an unfriendly takeover.

In my opinion, there's no such thing as a friendly takeover of Cuba.

And if you know any Cuban history and any history of the relationship between the two countries, you can't listen to those words and not cringe.

It feels total.

You know, it's just... There's a sense of hopelessness, of...

There's a complete lack of confidence that the current government in Cuba can find a solution to anything.

And, you know, it's affecting every realm of daily life.

And it's gotten worse since, you know, Trump has, you know, tried to—has cut off the, you know, the—

The shipments of oil to Cuba, it's gotten a lot worse over the last three months, but it was already, I mean, it was already devastating.

You already had hospitals, parts of which were crumbling, literally.

I know someone

In Cuba, this was in December of 24, who needed hip surgery because she fell and broke her hip.

The family had to provide the prostheses.

They had to buy it on the underground market themselves because the hospital couldn't provide it.

They had to provide medicine, they had to bring sheets, they had to bring food.

The other thing they had to provide was blood, because the hospital could not keep stores of blood.

The government can't even pick up garbage, and that was true even before, right?

So there's a sense in which there's a lot of basic services that they can't provide.

Both.