Communists debut a new justification for hunger in Cuba: "The Panama Canal has dried up" Prime Minister Manuel Marrero said that two rice ships that Cuba had purchased are stuck in the maritime enclave.
Cuba has the largest fiscal deficit in the world, not counting Ukraine. The fiscal deficit is the second worst in the history of Cuba, behind the fall of 1993, when the so-called Special Period began.
Venezuelans react with amazement and disappointment to the release and arrival in Caracas of Alex Saab. 'Saab was received on the airplane's stairs that brought him to Venezuela by Cilia Flores, Maduro's partner, and then transferred with honors to the gardens of the Miraflores Palace.'
Search for missing young Cuban woman intensifies in Havana The young woman went out to a party on December 14th and since then her family hasn't heard from her.