Cuba's 37th annual International Trade Fair of Havana opened on Monday (November 04), bringing together some 4,000 entrepreneurs from 60 nations around the world, amid strong sanctions from the US government to the local economy and government liquidity problems to pay foreign suppliers.

Cuba's annual International Trade Fair opens in Havana, amid US sanctions

Cuba is deploying horses to replace public transportation, using wood and charcoal instead of gas for cooking and advising citizens to save electricity by making the most of daylight as it grapples with an acute fuel shortage amid U.S. sanctions.

Amid crippling sanctions, Cuba deploys horses, wood-fired ovens to overcome fuel crisis

Cuba must implement emergency measures to stave off an acute fuel shortage in September caused by the Trump administration's efforts to block oil shipments to the Communist-run country, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Wednesday (September 11).

Cuba battling acute fuel shortage due to U.S. sanctions -president