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Cuba to become a BRICS partner state

Cuba, along with 12 other countries, has been approved to become a BRICS partner state. The group, which held its annual summit last week in Kazan, Russia, was created in 2009 to offset Western dominance of international relations and reduce dependence on the U.S. dollar.

How the U.S. Blockade Sabotaged Cuba’s Power Grid w/ Manolo De Los Santos

Manolo De Los Santos, the Co-Executive Director of The People’s Forum and a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research discusses the total collapse of Cuba’s national power grid that left the country without electricity for several days. De Los Santos explains how the US’s brutal 60-year blockade has sabotaged the island’s power grid.