Cuba looks to Vatican for help as U.S. pressure plunges island into crisis

Cuban officials have petitioned Pope Leo XIV to help persuade the Trump administration to ease its oil embargo, which is causing crippling fuel shortages and blackouts. Cuban officials have petitioned Pope Leo XIV to help persuade the Trump administration to ease its oil embargo, which is causing crippling fuel shortages and blackouts.

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• Cuban officials have petitioned Pope Leo XIV to help persuade the Trump administration to ease its oil embargo, which is causing crippling fuel shortages and blackouts.
• Cuban officials have petitioned Pope Leo XIV to help persuade the Trump administration to ease its oil embargo, which is causing
• crippling fuel shortages and blackouts. Cuban officials have petitioned Pope Leo XIV to help persuade the Trump administration to
• ease its oil embargo, which is causing crippling fuel shortages and blackouts.

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• Pope Leo XIV to help persuade the Trump administration to ease its oil embargo, which is causing crippling fuel shortages and blackouts.
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• Cuban officials have petitioned Pope Leo XIV to help persuade the Trump administration to ease its oil embargo, which is causing crippling fuel shortages and blackouts.
• Cuban officials have petitioned Pope Leo XIV to help persuade the Trump administration to ease its oil embargo, which is causing
• crippling fuel shortages and blackouts. Cuban officials have petitioned Pope Leo XIV to help persuade the Trump administration to