Cuba: it's an endless crisis, public lights turned off. And now medicines are also in short supply.

The black hole in the economy risks taking away the proverbial smile from Cubans. Not even the bread on the table, offered to the population through the supply booklet, could be guaranteed in the coming days, given the shortage of wheat flour. The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has meanwhile received yet another letter, signed by private organizations and individual citizens, calling for the end of the embargo.