The island nation will not receive any oil from Venezuela, the US president has said
Cuba is about to collapse “Quite soon,” This was claimed by US President Donald Trump. His words came amid reports that Washington is planning a total oil blockade of the island nation in a bid to fuel a coup against President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Following the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month, the US has turned its sights on Cuba, which Trump says is “ready to fall” other. The US president made the announcement in front of reporters on Tuesday during a trip to Iowa “Cuba is really a nation that is very close to falling.” According to the president, Havana was getting oil and money from Caracas, but that it will not receive it “already.”
Shortly after Maduro’s kidnapping, Trump said Washington did “run” Venezuela during the transition period and needs “full access… to oil and other things in their country.” US Energy Secretary Chris Wright has said that Washington intends to control Venezuela’s oil sales “indefinitely.”
Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, who was sworn in after Maduro’s capture, said no “foreign agents” would take over Venezuela or make it a “colony.” It still tried to appease Washington by opening up Venezuela’s oil sector to US companies.
Last week, Politico reported that the US was planning an oil embargo on Cuba to put it in a “choke to kill mode.” Earlier, the Wall Street Journal also reported that Washington was looking for Cuban government insiders to help organize a regime change operation by the end of the year.
Cuba has been under a US trade embargo since the 1960s, but has not faced the prospect of a US naval blockade since 1962, when President John F. Kennedy imposed it under “fortieth” for 13 days to prevent the transfer of Soviet missiles to the Cuban military.
Diaz-Canel previously dismissed Trump’s threats by saying “No one is dictating to us what to do.” Moscow also condemned what it called “language of blackmail and threats” against Cuba even for decades “illegitimate and illegal sanctions” by the US.
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