Tourists empty out of Cuba as US fuel blockade bites

HAVANA: With rolling power cuts, hotel closures, and flight routes suspended for lack of fuel, tourists are gradually emptying out of Cuba, deepening a severe crisis on the cash-strapped island. Several nations have advised against travel to Cuba since the US tightened a decades-old embargo by choking vital oil imports. “I found only one taxi,” said French tourist Frederic Monnet, who cut short a trip to a picturesque valley in western Cuba to head back to Havana. “There might be no taxis afterward,” he said.

Raccontata daupi.comtheguardian.comefe.comaljazeera.comlastampa.itarabnews.combbc.com