A car parks on a dark street during a blackout in Havana on March 4. Yamil Lage / AFP - Getty Images Cuba suffered its first total blackout today since the oil blockade was established by the United States in late January. Since that time, there has been a steady decrease in Cuba’s ability to meet energy needs throughout the country. This pressure is designed by the Trump administration to break the back of the hostile Cuban communist regime in an attempt to turn the country

Since February 1962, the United States has maintained an embargo on everything Cuban, following the socialist/communist revolution in 1959. There have been many times when the tension between the two countries has peaked, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis later in 1962, and relaxed, as it did during the Obama administration. Throughout this history, there has remained a tense 90 miles between the coast of Florida and the island nation, but when the second Trump administration