Ada Peralta

It no longer has enough fuel for its power plants or even to run its trash trucks.

Cuba says the U.S.

is trying to squeeze its population into a popular rebellion, but President Miguel Diaz-Canel says they are ready to fight.

Ada Peralta, NPR News, Mexico City.

Ever since the United States stopped Venezuelan oil from reaching Cuba, Mexico has become the island's biggest provider of oil.

Republican lawmakers have since called for Mexico to stop shipments, and Bloomberg News reports the state oil agency has done just that.

President Claudia Sheinbaum did not deny the report, but she said Mexico was against the U.S.

embargo on Cuba.

Mexico has always supported Cuba, she said, and it will keep doing so.

But even a short pause in shipments will have repercussions in Cuba because it's already facing an economic crisis.

Cuba says the U.S.

is trying to starve its government in an effort to provoke a popular rebellion.

Ada Peralta, NPR News, Mexico City.

The current president, Xiomara Castro, has a tense relationship with the U.S.

When Castro began, when Trump began his immigration crackdown, she threatened to shut down the U.S.

base in the country.

And it seems that Trump made a cold calculation that the most robust U.S.

ally in Honduras would be the National Party, Asfuda's party.

It seems that Trump made a cold calculation that the most robust U.S.

ally in Honduras would be the National Party, Asfuda's party.