Fuel Blockade Taking ‘Increasingly Severe’ Toll on Cuba, UN Says

The US campaign to starve Cuba of fuel is having “an increasingly severe impact” on the island, affecting hospitals, public sanitation, water delivery and food distribution, the United Nations warned.

“Policy goals cannot justify actions that in themselves violate human rights,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said Friday in a statement, calling on “all states” to lift their coercive measures, without singling out Washington.

Tourists ride in an old American car along a nearly empty avenue in Havana, on Feb. 8.

Photographer: Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images

Daily life on the island of about 10 million people is grinding to a halt, with President Donald Trump’s administration blocking all fuel deliveries to the island for more ...