As the U.S. media continues to report on the Cuban crisis, evidence months later shows how the conditions I witnessed have grown worse. The 100-page report concludes:“When the war in Cuba was over, he [Fidel Castro] promised, a ‘much wider and bigger war’ against the United States would begin. On Aug. 6, the United States announced another round of Cuba-related sanctions. There remains vigorous disagreement over responsibility for Cuba’s economic and energy crisis. The United States has attributed Cuba’s problems to failures of its state-run economic system.