'If the Cuban government were to collapse, that would be a security threat to the United States'

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François Picard is pleased to welcome Emily Morris, Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London's Institute of the Americas. The fuel embargo has shifted from an abstract policy dispute into harming quality of life. This is not simply “shortage,” but a sequence of events: deeper power cuts and a transport squeeze that limits mobility, work, and institutional routines like universities going remote. The most corrosive feature is uncertainty, the most likely scenario is a standoff.