President Díaz-Canel Reports on Cuba’s Plans and Readiness for Confronting US Oil Blockade

Photograph Source: Виктор Пинчук – CC BY-Sa 4.0

The U.S. government’s punitive executive order issued by President Trump on January 29 imposes tariffs on all countries shipping oil to Cuba. Already, little or no oil had been arriving in Cuba for several months, the result of a U.S. fleet patrolling in the Caribbean Sea. U.S. military attack on Venezuela on January 3, and the U.S. control of Venezuela’s oil sales that resulted, closed off that longtime source of oil for the island.

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