Cuba’s Moment of Reckoning

Veteran war photographer and correspondent Paul Conroy died of natural causes shortly after returning from Cuba with this, his last photo essay, of another city under siege

The moment Donald Trump’s snatch squad bundled Nicolás Maduro onto a rendition flight to the United States out of Venezuela in January, all eyes slid 90 miles across the water to Cuba.

The question wrote itself: what fresh punishment did Trump, or more likely his Cuban-American attack dog Marco Rubio, have up their sleeves for their Caribbean nemesis?

We did not have to wait long.

Trump, now with the keys to Venezuela’s oil stocks, cut off supplies to an island almost entirely dependent on Maduro’s black gold.