In Cuba, the lights went out Thursday morning. The national grid collapsed across Cuba’s eastern provinces, from Guantánamo through the center of the island. Cuba’s Energy Minister had appeared on state television the day before to admit the island had “absolutely no fuel, and absolutely no diesel. We have no reserves.” On Wednesday night, AP journalists watched residents bang pots and pans and set fire to trash cans in the dark.
Two days earlier, on the way to Beijing for the state visit I wrote about Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio boarded Air Force One in a gray Nike tracksuit. The internet called it “the Maduro fit” inside an hour. The joke was real. So was the message.
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