The Cuban peso has plummeted to 900 to the US dollar, according to Havana Times, as economic hardships intensify under continued U.S. sanctions.
Cuba's healthcare system faces mounting challenges with medicine shortages and power outages, CBS News reports, amid worsening living conditions for residents.
At the United Nations, Cuba and the U.S. exchanged sharp criticisms over the embargo, while Costa Rica became the first country to vote against the UN call to end the U.S. trade blockade, per Havana Times.
E14 places every story on a stack of fifteen floors, from the fields under everything to the planet acting as one. This one sits on E10, institutions; the pressure it names: economic sanctions. Its words also reach E6 organisms, E12 states and E13 civilizations.
Here it is a dynamic between institutions, organisms and states: Cuban peso and US dollar (E10 institutions), with medicine shortages and power outages (E6 organisms), and U.S. sanctions (E12 states).
The floor of money and rules. In this briefing: Cuban peso, US dollar.
The floor of bodies and health. In this briefing: medicine shortages, power outages.
The floor of states and force. In this briefing: U.S. sanctions.
The floor of patterns across many states. In this briefing: United Nations.