Hard-to-Find Items: Store Shelves and Nicolas Maduro

hard-to-find items: For weeks, Cubans have complained of empty store shelves and fights have broken out in state-run markets when chicken and other hard-to-find items go on sale, according to CNN. The government blames the shortage on the hardline taken by the Trump administration on the island's government for its support of the regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. Cubans will face regulations on the purchase of chicken, eggs, sausages, and cleaning and hygiene products, the state-run website Cubadebate reported Friday. The supply of oil coming from Venezuela to Cuba has been waning in recent months as the Maduro government deals with US sanctions and an imploding economy. Part of the sanctions includes the enforcement of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, or Libertad Act. Trump administration targets so-called 'troika of tyranny' with wave of new sanctions The Trump administration announced the new sanctions in April against what US National Security Adviser John Bolton calls the troika of tyranny Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.