{"id":1339,"date":"2026-05-29T10:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/2026\/05\/29\/us-intentionally-pushing-cubans-into-hunger-professor-to-rick-sanchez-video\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:41:03","slug":"us-intentionally-pushing-cubans-into-hunger-professor-to-rick-sanchez-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"US intentionally pushing Cubans into hunger \u2013 professor to Rick Sanchez (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Danny Shaw told the RT host about what he saw during his latest visit to the blockaded island nation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US is deliberately causing hunger in Cuba as part of its economic strangulation of the island, City University of New York professor Danny Shaw has said in an interview with RT\u2019s Rick Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Sanchez Effect show, Shaw, an ethnography scholar, discussed his recent visit to Cuba and argued that the US is the main cause of the instability.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUS foreign policy for 67 years now has done everything to disrupt the Cuban economy, any sense of social and economic harmony,\u201d<\/em> Shaw said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe State Department, all these different agencies, the CIA, they know exactly how many calories Cubans have access to, and every day it\u2019s less,\u201d<\/em> he added. <em>\u201cI witnessed an incredible amount of hunger, of despair, of deprivation, of thirst, lack of water.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Shaw, conditions have deteriorated further since President Donald Trump\u2019s administration tightened the blockade while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/640713-trump-cuba-accelerate-regime-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">preparing<\/a> for a possible military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/640554-if-washington-moves-on-cuba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">invasion<\/a>. He claimed that in some respects the shortages in Cuba have become worse than those in Haiti, another Caribbean country marked by prolonged instability and economic hardship.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/639048-cia-wishful-thinking-and-imperial-blindness\/\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>The CIA, wishful thinking, and imperial blindness: How the US engineered its own failure in Cuba<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Sanchez, who was born in Cuba and raised in Miami, said the issue was personal to him. He also rejected claims by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Cuba\u2019s worsening economic crisis is primarily the fault of its own government, arguing instead that <em>\u201cthe United States has destroyed Cuba, not incompetent communists.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Shaw told the RT host about what he saw during his latest visit to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}