Down a side street off one of Havana’s grand, mansion-lined boulevards, Carlos is looking for lunch. His emaciated hands unpick the knot of a white plastic bag lying on a heap of rubbish and his fingers spread out the contents, filleting a chicken bone for scraps of meat. “The state gives us nothing,” he says. “Now we are fending for ourselves.”
Unthinkable until recently, scenes of hunger are being repeated across communist Cuba as food runs low in state-controlled shops.
After seizing Venezuela’s revolutionary socialist ruler Nicolás Maduro in a commando raid last month, the Trump administration is trying to bring Cuba to its knees by forcing its few remaining allies to cut off fuel supplies.
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