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🇨🇺 Cuba Fuel Black Market Expands Reuters reports US fuel sales to Cuban businesses are opening visible cracks in Havana’s communist energy sector. The snippet cites gasoline sold from cramped apartments at $38 a gallon and diesel marketed on Instagram by a celebrity model, six decades after Fidel Castro’s revolution. When fuel moves through informal apartments and social media pitches, that signals state failure and parallel distribution networks, not real market reform. In Cuba, shortages and controls predictably push commerce into gray channels where sanctions pressure, elite access, and criminal facilitation can easily converge. 🔎 Source ☠️ Blood Meridian

🇲🇽 Cuban Smuggling Ring Hits Quintana Roo A New York Times report says a group of Cuban men in Mexico was charged with smuggling people to the United States. The case centers on Quintana Roo, and one of the group’s leaders said Raúl Castro’s grandson helped, according to interviews and court records cited by the paper. If accurate, this points to the same old pattern: migrant smuggling thrives through protected networks, not random freelancers. Mexico’s Caribbean corridor remains a staging ground for illicit transit while Washington keeps selling border enforcement theater. 🔎 Source ☠️ Blood Meridian

🇺🇸 Big Bend Barrier Fight Sen. John Cornyn urged DHS to hear Texas concerns before border barrier construction in the Big Bend region. In a letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Cornyn cited concerns from a bipartisan group of Texas border sheriffs, county judges, private landowners, and Big Bend park advocates over federal barrier plans there. The fact that sheriffs, local officials, landowners, and park advocates are all pressing DHS suggests a familiar pattern: Washington pushes top-down border policy while the people living with the consequences are sidelined. That is not serious sovereignty. It is enforcement theater layered onto a weak federal process. 🔎 Source ☠️ Blood Meridian