{"id":201664,"date":"2026-03-22T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201664\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:40:08","slug":"miami-rally-and-aid-convoy-support-cuban-people-amid-power-shortages-and-political-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201664\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami rally and aid convoy support Cuban people amid power shortages and political unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hector Rosario and his family took his dad&#8217;s 1950s Oldsmobile from Naples to Hialeah. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These cars are so important because this is a staple in Cuba. These type of cars. These antiques. When these Cubans come together it&#8217;s a great way to show us commemorating what Cuba was and what Cuba could be,&#8221; Rosario said. <\/p>\n<p>His family wanted to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/cuba-latest-crisis-humanitarian-trip-miami-south-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a caravan<\/a> supporting the Cuban people, as the island is coping with frequent blackouts and power shortages. President Trump has warned that the island&#8217;s power grid is on the verge of collapsing. Rosario wants the world to be aware of the struggles facing the Caribbean country. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need that recognition as well. If we don&#8217;t have people behind it than nobody&#8217;s gonna care,&#8221; Rosario said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and Cuba have been in talks, but Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel has stated that an agreement is far off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the closest it&#8217;s even been to coming back and reforming the government so it&#8217;s high hopes now,&#8221; rosario said. <\/p>\n<p>While people rallied, a convoy of aid is in Cuba. They flew down from Miami on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>About 140 people loaded 6,300 pounds of medicine, medical supplies, and nonperishable food items onto a plane from Miami to Havana on Friday. They&#8217;re now getting those supplies to the Cuban people. CBS News Miami spoke with them after they landed, and they reported experiencing a blackout at their hotel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are fortunate enough that where we&#8217;re staying, we have a backup generator, but that&#8217;s not the case for a lot of people. They just have to deal with the situation at hand,&#8221; said Claudio Rodriguez from Havana. <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, a rally was held at Lummus Park in Miami, where many Cubans expressed their desire to travel to Cuba and support their fellow countrymen.<\/p>\n<p>While Cuba and the U.S. are still in talks, the country did release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/humanitarian-trip-from-us-to-cuba-march-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">51 prisoners<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>President Trump has said he wants regime change. He said there could be a &#8220;friendly or unfriendly&#8221; takeover of Cuba coming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hector Rosario and his family took his dad&#8217;s 1950s Oldsmobile from Naples to Hialeah. &#8220;These cars are so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1016,409,225,123,125,124,807],"class_list":["post-201664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-cuba","tag-donald-trump","tag-hialeah","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}