Cubans queue for fuel as Trump issues oil ultimatum

Hours after US President Donald Trump approved punitive tariffs against countries supplying oil to Cuba, lines formed at stations in the Cuban capital. "This will directly hit ordinary Cubans sooner or later -- that's clearly the intention," Jorge Rodriguez, a 60‑year‑old IT worker, told AFP as he waited in line. Trump's executive order was denounced in Havana as an attempt to throttle an economy already suffering power blackouts of up to 20 hours a day and critical shortages of fuel, medicines and food.