In Cuba, an estimated 11,000 children are awaiting surgery as a U.S. fuel blockade is pushing hospitals to the brink amid worsening blackouts and supply shortages. Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday more than 96,000 Cubans are in need of surgery, but hospitals have been forced to suspend some medical procedures due to limited electricity and as they run out of supplies like syringes and antibiotics. Cuban officials have condemned Trump’s intensifying siege on Cuba as “energy asphyxiation” as the island has not received any oil imports in more than three months, reducing its fuel supply by about 90%. U.N. experts have condemned the U.S. blockade on Cuba as a violation of international law.