US EditionCubans Queue for Fuel as Trump Issues Energy Ultimatum
The tariffs target countries supplying Cuba oil, worsening fuel shortages and blackouts for 11 million residents, amid US efforts to pressure Havana over its alliances.
- Yesterday, US President Donald Trump approved punitive tariffs, leading to queues at petrol stations in Havana after the decree targeted Cuba's oil suppliers, which faces a choice between trade with the US or an island of 11 million people.
- Supply disruptions followed as Cuba's cheap Venezuelan oil dried up after Maduro's fall, prompting US warnings to Havana to `make a deal soon` or face consequences.
- A Cuban waiting in line, Jorge Rodriguez, said `This will directly hit ordinary Cubans sooner or later-- that's clearly the intention,` as Cuba faces blackouts up to 20 hours daily and electricity shortages in 2025.
- Regional pressures mounted as the US maintained an armada in the Caribbean, while trade experts reported slowed Mexican deliveries and possible PEMEX halts, deepening supply risks.
- Havana denounced the move as orchestrated by a `fascist, criminal and genocidal` cabal, with Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel criticizing US measures as inhumane, while Venezuela voiced solidarity.
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Donald Trump has now decided to take the pressure to the maximum on Cuba, with an instrument that points to the island’s energy heart: oil. After cutting the flow of Venezuelan crude oil after the fall of Nicolás Maduro, the president signed on Thursday an executive order (decree) that authorizes the imposition of tariffs on any country that sells or supplies fuel to Havana. It is a step that places Cuba before a horizon of economic asphyxiation…
Havana describes Trump's decision as an act of coercion and blackmail that is part of a long history of harassment and economic pressure against the island.
When Trump gets away with his illegal approach to the oil blockade, it is only a matter of time when the lights are going out in Cuba. For Cuba's population, the new escalation promises nothing good.
Trump considers that the Cuban government has the days numbered. Laura Bécquer The decision of the U.S. President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba causes concern, uncertainty, but also indifference on the island, after decades accustomed to pressure from Washington. “The threat is them (U.S.) for us. We have always been an obstacle to them. He (Trump) is a madman, he can expect anything from him. Didn’t he do i…
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