Last year, for the first time in a decade, Cuban asylum applications exceeded Venezuelan ones in sign of growing strain.
Cuba thanks China for rice shipment amid worsening humanitarian conditionsThe Caribbean island has faced a fuel blockade that has cut off essential supplies, as Trump seeks regime change.
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