The Ceuta border rush, and Cuba's deepened energy crisis 6 months later

The Ceuta border rush, and Cuba's deepened energy crisis 6 months later

Author: Amanda Stephens, Hanna Bilinski,Rti August 10, 2026 Duration: 0:00
This week, hosts Amanda and Hanna are tackling: The mass migration in Ceuta, and the misinformation, and fearmongering bookend-ing the border rush, and how Cuba is now 6 months into having basically no power at all. Read along with us! Mass migration in Ceuta: 1. How misinformation drove thousands to rush Ceuta's border (Reuters), 2. Why is Ceuta a migration flashpoint and how were so many people able to cross from Morocco? (Angela Giuffrida, The Guardian), 3. The fallout from the Ceuta border rush shows extreme, populist views are now mainstream (Issy Ronald, CNN), 4. Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta (Akram Oubachir, AP) US blockade on Cuba con't: 1. Cuba’s power grid collapses again despite restoration efforts (Al Jazeera), 2. Storms disrupt Cuba’s power restoration, operator says, less than a day after sixth nationwide blackout (Diego Mendoza, CNN), 3. ‘We count every litre’: how Cuba’s energy crisis sparked a daily struggle for water (Lucien Migné, The Guardian), 4. 2026 Cuban Crisis / 2026 United States Fuel Blockade on Cuba (Wikipedia)

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