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Really it is.
So that's one thing to bear in mind.
So when President Trump talks about this idea, I think in essence he's saying, look, what we could get this to is a position where there's control from Washington of, you know, the basics, whether or not that's the tourism industry, which is one of the main sources of foreign income and so on and so forth, echoing the position where Washington seems to currently have the Venezuelan oil industry, i.e.,
doing its bidding, Washington largely in control.
Now, making that a reality with the revolutionary government in place in Cuba is a very, very different prospect.
So ultimately, it's quite an easy thing to say.
It's a much, much harder thing to bring to fruition.
But he is certainly right that the island is hurting very, very hard under this oil blockade.
I've literally just got back from Cuba last week.
Those fuel shortages are very, very painful.
I saw people cooking with firewood.
in Havana, not in the provinces, but in Havana.
And those cars that can actually get fuel, because the restrictions are very, very tight, are only limited to 20 litres in a single sitting, which they must pay for in US dollars.
Our Central America correspondent, Will Grant.
NASA's Artemis lunar programme has suffered a series of delays in recent years.
Now the US Space Agency has announced a shake-up to try to ensure that Americans can return to the moon's surface by 2028.
It's changing its flight line-up to include an extra mission involving a spacecraft docking test.
Here's NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.
The next launch, which is due to see the first flyby of the Moon in more than half a century, will now not happen before April.
What does all this mean for the Artemis programme, though?