The Elitist Media continue to provide aid and comfort to Cuba’s communist regime ahead of a potential action by the United States. This time, it’s Trump-deranged ABC News performing crisis communications for a brutal regime on its last legs. Watch as correspondent Matt Rivers whitewashes the regime, hypes its May Day anti-American march, and propagates the idea that the energy embargo is the source of Cuba’s ills (click "expand" to view transcript): Trump-deranged ABC News joins in the whitewashing of Cuba's communist dictatorship ahead of a potential action from by United States. Garbage was rotting along crumbling Havana streets well before the oil embargo. pic.twitter.com/oA8gzEA64p — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) May 3, 2026 MATT RIVERS: Just after dawn along the Malecón, Havana's famed coastal highway filled with Cubans all marching, all headed toward the same place. So that building right there is the U.S. Embassy here in Havana. And today, the Cuban government is surging hundreds of thousands of people right past its front door with a clear message: the Cuban government is not backing down.  It was an anti-imperialist March, says the government, in the face of a U.S. administration more determined than ever to topple the government that's ruled this country for nearly seventy years. DONALD TRUMP: Cuba is a failing nation, and we're going to do this, and we may stop by Cuba after we're finished with this. RIVERS: The Trump administration has explicitly not taken military action off the table to achieve that goal, but announced new sanctions on Cuban leadership Friday, increasing pressure on them to step down. Cuba's foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, calling those new sanctions “collective punishment on the Cuban people.” MARCO RUBIO: Those serious economic reforms are impossible with these people in charge. It can't happen. And these people in charge aren't just economically incompetent. They have rolled out the welcome mat to adversaries of the United States to operate within Cuban territory against our national interest, with impunity. RIVERS: But for now, the pressure campaign has focused on one main thing: oil. A U.S. Embargo wiped out nearly 60% of Cuba's oil import supply in a matter of days. Now, in Havana, as night falls, the lights often don't come on.  The only lights on on the street right now are the ones that are powered by batteries. And this is the new norm. There's not a single neighborhood in all of the city of Havana that has not been affected by these blackouts. And the longer this country goes without getting enough oil, the worse this gets.  Upstairs from the street, mom Idania cooks on a propane stove- hamburger, rice and beans by flashlight. Yet again, that's most nights here. IDANIA IN SPANISH: Everything’s a crisis. RIVERS: It's a crisis, she says. It's incredibly stressful. There's no schedule to eat, to cook. You can't plan your life. It's horrible. After dinner, it's homework by flashlight. Lantern in one hand, pencil in the other. Daylight in Havana reveals more challenges. The smell of rotting trash wafting through the streets.  With no gas to run the trash trucks, there's piles of trash like this all over the city, not just in poorer places, but also right here. That building is the Ministry of Tourism. The tight shot suggests that this was a massive protest, but it was not. A handful of protesters marched across tight streets so as to create the appearance of mass participation in support of the presence of Cuba’s real ruler Raúl Castro. Actual video of the march differs from what Rivers laid out for ABC viewers.