{"id":70992,"date":"2026-04-06T13:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/house-democrats-call-for-permanent-solution-to-cuban-crises-after-witnessing-energy-blockade\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:56:39","slug":"house-democrats-call-for-permanent-solution-to-cuban-crises-after-witnessing-energy-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/house-democrats-call-for-permanent-solution-to-cuban-crises-after-witnessing-energy-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats call for permanent solution to Cuban crises after witnessing energy blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Jackson of Illinois calls Cuba \u2018most sanctioned part of Earth\u2019 amid US oil blockade causing vast disruptions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democratic<\/a> US lawmakers on Monday called for a permanent solution to crises confronting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/cuba\">Cuba<\/a> after they visited the island to witness the effects of an American energy blockade.<\/p>\n<p> US House members Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Jonathan Jackson of Illinois met with Cuban president Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel and foreign minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez as well as members of Cuba\u2019s parliament during a five-day trip ending on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI denounced the criminal damage caused by the blockade, particularly the consequences of the energy siege decreed by the current US government and its threats of even more aggressive actions,\u201d D\u00edaz-Canel wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/06\/cuba-blockade-energy-house-democrats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Jackson of Illinois calls Cuba \u2018most sanctioned part of Earth\u2019 amid US oil blockade causing vast disruptions Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Two Democratic US lawmakers on Monday called for a permanent solution to crises confronting Cuba after they visited the island to witness &#8230; <a title=\"House Democrats call for permanent solution to Cuban crises after witnessing energy blockade\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/house-democrats-call-for-permanent-solution-to-cuban-crises-after-witnessing-energy-blockade\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about House Democrats call for permanent solution to Cuban crises after witnessing energy blockade\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}