Cuba is an island nation on roughly the same latitude as Taiwan. After the collapse of the USSR in the 1990s, Cuba lost the seemingly inexhaustible supply of oil and chemical fertilizers that its socialist Big Brother had been sending. With the US enforcing a complete trade embargo on the island, Cuba faced a major fuel and food crisis.
緯度和台灣近似的島國古巴，在 1990 年代蘇聯瓦解後，失去了來自老大哥源源不絕的石油、化肥供應，加上美國貿易禁運，而陷入嚴重的石油和糧食危機。