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By Salim Lamrani
November 1, 2025

Unanimously condemned by the international community every year since 1992, this state of siege seriously affects the well-being of the entire Cuban population—particularly the most vulnerable—and remains the main obstacle to the country's development. From March 2024 to February 2025, US economic sanctions cost Cuba $7.55 billion—a 50 percent increase compared to the previous year—representing more than $20 million per day and nearly $15,000 per minute.

That amount is equivalent to the electricity consumption of Cuba's 10 million inhabitants for six years. With the same sum, Cuba could fill every household's grocery basket for six years, cover the nation's medical needs for 22 years, or guarantee public transportation for the next six decades.

Most buyers sourcing squid from vessels accused of crew abuse and deaths are based in North America — nearly half in the US and one-third in Canada.

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Consumers of these squid in the US are “eating a product that may have been caught by somebody in force, bonded or slave labor,” Steve Trent, CEO and founder of the Environmental Justice Foundation, tells Sentient.

Meme Image: A photo of a wonderfully cooked Thanksgiving turkey.

Meme Caption: Food Stamps? No Turkey For You!

In an episode of the Bg2 Pod that was posted on Friday, host Brad Gerstner, who is also the founder of Altimeter Capital, asked how the company could make financial commitments totaling $1.4 trillion when annual revenue is reportedly $13 billion.

“We're doing well more revenue than that,” Altman replied.

OpenAI has announced massive AI infrastructure deals in recent weeks with companies like Nvidia, Broadcom and Oracle. That's as other so-called AI hyperscalers like Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and top OpenAI investor Microsoft are collectively totaling hundreds of trillions of dollars a year in capital expenditures.

A federal judge in Oregon on Sunday barred President Trump's administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, until at least Friday, saying she "found no credible evidence" that protests in the city grew out of control before the president federalized the troops earlier this fall.

The city and state sued in September to block the deployment.

It's the latest development in weeks of legal back-and-forth in Portland, Chicago and other U.S. cities as the Trump administration has moved to federalize and deploy the National Guard in city streets to quell protests.

The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, an appointee of Mr. Trump, followed a three-day trial in which both sides argued over whether protests at the city's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building met the conditions for using the military domestically under federal law.