Cuba is on the Brink of Collapse

A death sentence. That's what Latin America experts calling Cuba's situation after Venezuelan oil stopped flowing to Havana. On January 3, American Special Forces arrested Nicholas Maduro in Caracas and within a matter of hours, tankers that had been heading for Havana turned around and were seized.

Five were an American custody by January 10, scattered from the Caribbean to as far away as Iceland. For an island that imports nearly all of its energy and has been getting roughly half of it from Venezuela, it cannot be overstated just how devastating this is.

Now that we're over a week into the countdown, many neighborhoods on the island are expecting blackouts for 20 hours at a stretch.