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The Trump administration has a tendency to antagonize America's neighbors: perpetual threats to buy, annex, or conquer Greenland, illegal strikes against Caribbean fishing boats, and the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Throughout it all, Trump’s imperial ambitions have zoned in on one small island: Cuba. “Other presidents have looked at [Cuba] for 50, 60 years, doing something,” Trump said on Thursday. “And it looks like I’ll be the one that does it...I would be happy to do it.” The US has kept Cuba under a trade embargo since the 1960s. And for about the past four months, America has blockaded oil tankers from docking on the island. Two weeks ago, Cuban minister of energy Vicente de la O Levy warned that the island of nearly 11 million people had run out of oil. As Reveal’s Laura Morel reported, Cuba's once-vaunted hospital system is now on the brink of collapse. This week, Trump’s Justice Department further threatened Cuba, unsealing an indictment charging 94-year-old former Cuban head of state Raúl Castro with murder and conspiracy to kill US citizens—which might signal a forthcoming attempt to abduct Castro from the country. This "maximum pressure campaign," as Trump calls it, certainly isn't achieving its supposed goal of popular rebellion and regime change—only what UN experts call the “energy starvation” of Cuba. My colleague Alex Nguyen spoke with scholars and historians about how we got to this point. To cut through the bombast and learn what's at stake, read on. —Sophie Hurwitz |
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He's "happy" to "do something" about Cuba—an island lacking fuel, power, and food—starting with its 94-year-old ex-leader. |
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Community leaders expose plastic industry myths—and the danger lurking next door. |
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BY NATE HALVERSON This past Sunday, I found myself walking across the snowless ski runs of Sierra-at-Tahoe in California, which sits on public land in the El Dorado National Forest. I had come to chase down a rumor. Numerous Tahoe-area residents had told me the Forest Service’s plan to spray the controversial herbicide glyphosate—part of the agency’s forest restoration plan for about 75,000 acres scorched by the devastating 2021 Caldor Fire—had been delayed until 2028. A local news site, along with a major local environmental group—Keep Tahoe Blue—were telling people some version of that.
But I had my suspicions. I dug up maps from the Forest Service’s website, and headed to a spot where one of them indicated spraying might already be happening. It was strange to be standing in the middle of a ski run, with neither snow nor skiers around. But I knew if spraying were happening, it would be obvious.
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When the Forest Service sent a routine letter about wildfire recovery in, one word buried in the text stopped me cold: herbicides.
This spring, federal agencies plan to spray glyphosate—the world's most controversial and widely-debated weedkiller—across thousands and thousands of acres of public land. Land where families camp, hikers explore, hunters pursue game, and children swim in mountain streams. And almost no one knows it's happening.
Glyphosate, introduced by agri-giant Monsanto in 1974, has been classified as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization. Bayer, the multinational conglomerate that acquired Monsanto in 2018, has now paid over $12 billion in legal settlements to thousands of people who claim Roundup gave them cancer and other serious illnesses. Scientists have also linked the chemical to decimated Monarch butterfly populations, mass frog die-offs, and widespread environmental destruction.
And yet in February, President Trump signed an executive order declaring glyphosate critical to national security, invoking the Defense Production Act to guarantee its continued use and shielding its producers from legal liability.
So why is one of the most litigated chemicals in American history being quietly sprayed across our national forests?
To get to the bottom of it, my colleague Melissa Lewis and I pulled California pesticide application records going back to 1995 and analyzed more than 5 million data points. What we uncovered was deeply troubling: glyphosate spraying in California forests has quintupled since 2005—the fastest-growing market for the chemical in the state—and the public has been left almost entirely in the dark.
This is the plan they don't want you to know about.
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