{"id":46373,"date":"2026-09-24T12:32:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46373"},"modified":"2026-09-24T12:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:32:27","slug":"cuban-ambassador-highlights-impact-of-us-blockade","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/cuban-ambassador-highlights-impact-of-us-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Ambassador highlights impact of US blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The\u00a0Cuban Ambassador\u00a0to\u00a0South Africa (SA),\u00a0Fakri\u00a0Rodriguez\u00a0Pinelo,\u00a0says the island nation is reeling from the impact of the United States (US) imposed blockade.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cuba says the blockade has cost Havana over $8 billion in economic damage in the last year.<\/div>\n<div>\nWashington DC has previously said the blockade and sanctions are necessary to force a change\u00a0in\u00a0the Cuban government.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Fakri Rodriguez Pinelo says they\u00a0are\u00a0counting\u00a0on the international community to ensure that the blockade is ended.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":46376,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-46373","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Cuban is reeling from the impact of the United States imposed blockade","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46377,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46373\/revisions\/46377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}