Frances Robles

Thanks for having me.

Decades.

I actually looked it up today.

I wanted to see what was my first article about Cuba.

And it was the summer of 1993.

Wow.

A hundred percent.

I interviewed an economist who told me a funny joke that says, how come Cubans have such short index fingers?

Well, I don't know why.

Well, it's from banging their finger on the table for years saying, next year we'll be having roast pork in Havana at Christmas.

They've been saying this for 60 years, that this is the last year of the Cuban regime.

But then this time, all the people that I interview, very serious people, academics, economists,

People who have written books on the subject, they all say the same thing.

They say, you know what, this time it might actually be true.

And the word that you hear over and over again is unsustainable.

This current situation in Cuba is unsustainable.

The big issue right now, Cuba produces about 40% of the oil that it needs for domestic purposes.

And so it was receiving the other 60%, either from Venezuela or from Mexico.

Now it is getting zero of that.

And so you're starting to see buses are not going to be able to run.