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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu May 14, 2026, 04:40 AM Thursday

Cuba has run out of diesel and oil, energy minister says [View all]

Source: BBC

Cuba has completely run out of diesel and fuel oil, the country's Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy has said.

In an interview with state-run media, de la O Levy said there were limited amounts of gas available, but that Cuba's energy system was in a "critical" state as a US-led blockade of oil to the country squeezed supply.
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The US this week reiterated its offer of sending $100m (£74m) in aid to the country in exchange for "meaningful reforms to Cuba's communist system".
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Under the US blockade, parts of Havana have been plunged into 20 to 22-hour blackout periods, he continued.



Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7pyrj0vx7o



This, of course, is the massive foreign interference that The Rapist swore he wasn't going to do. Blocking the fuel that a country needs to survive to force a change in its system, when it does not threaten the USA in anyway (you may argue a different political system would be better for the average Cuban, but Trump is grabbing the power to change other countries as his whim changes).
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