There's no doubt the US military has the capability to mount a blockade of vessels moving in and out of the Gulf. The question is: to what end.

Jack Nicas reported from Mexico City, and Christiaan Triebert from New York. Cuba is confronting the United States' first effective blockade since the Cuban Missile Crisis and running out of fuel fast, pushing the nation toward a humanitarian crisis and its government to the edge of collapse, according to a New York Times analysis of shipping data and satellite images.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marta Jiménez, a hairdresser in Cuba's eastern city of Holguín, covered her face with her hands and broke down crying when I asked her about Donald Trump's blockade of the island -- especially now that the U.