# Cuba: Four Possible Scenarios

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Podcast: [The Americas Quarterly Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-americas-quarterly-podcast-1105978)
Published: 2026-06-18T15:00:00+00:00
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Over the past few months, the Trump administration has steadily ramped up pressure on Cuba: indicting senior Cuban officials including former president Raúl Castro, and sanctioning the state oil company and military-linked entities that control much of Cuba's economy. Taken together, Washington's measures, combined with the Cuban government's own decades of economic mismanagement, have pushed the island near a breaking point, with crumbling infrastructure, dire fuel shortages, and chronic nat...

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