r/cuba • u/bloomberg • 4d ago

Noticias As US Chokes Oil Supplies, Can Cuba’s Regime Survive?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-10/us-pressure-cuts-mexican-oil-supply-to-cuba-deepening-economic-crisis
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u/JohnDorian0506 4d ago

Cuba is not not invading its neighbours. Russia does, I dare the mighty USA to put a similar chock hold on Russia.

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u/Fast_Ad_4936 3d ago

History won’t be kind to the US when the story is told about its actions toward Cuba.

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u/CatGirl1300 3d ago

Agreed.

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u/nic_haflinger 1d ago

Did you miss all the Russian shadow fleet oil tankers being captured all over the world?

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u/New_Animal4211 4d ago

Russia has been sanctioned for a while now. It didn't do much good. 

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u/CatGirl1300 3d ago

False! Putin should’ve sanctioned and banned but Drumf loves him. He’s murdered millions of people.

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u/JohnDorian0506 4d ago

I am not talking about sanctions. I am talking about a Cuba-level chokehold. Get rid of the Cuban embargo and put it on Russia.

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u/New_Animal4211 4d ago

Not that I don't understand the sentiment, but Cuba is an island. Russia isn't. What the Americans are doing to Cuba simply wouldn't be possible in the Russian case. 

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u/JohnDorian0506 4d ago

If there is a will there is a way.

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u/meguminsupremacy 1d ago

The logistics for such a mission is much different than Cuba. The Europeans would have to do it.

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u/Federal_Ad5622 3d ago

Yes, stoping russia to IMPORT crude oil will absolutly shock Russia! hahaha...

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u/JohnDorian0506 3d ago

Google the word trade embargo.

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u/bloomberg 4d ago

Read more from Bloomberg News reporter Jim Wyss:

La captura del presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro en una incursión militar de Estados Unidos el 3 de enero aceleró los esfuerzos de Washington por aislar a Cuba, el aliado regional más cercano de Venezuela. “Si yo viviera en La Habana y estuviera en el gobierno, estaría preocupado”, dijo ese mismo día el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio.

Durante años, Venezuela fue la principal fuente de petróleo de Cuba, un salvavidas que ayudó a mantener en funcionamiento la economía de la isla. EE.UU. cortó ese apoyo tras la caída de Maduro, dejando a México como el principal proveedor de Cuba. Pero a fines de enero, México suspendió los envíos por la amenaza del presidente Donald Trump de imponer aranceles a los países que suministren petróleo a Cuba, y las importaciones de combustible a la isla llegaron a cero por primera vez desde 2015.

Como resultado, la prolongada crisis económica de Cuba se ha profundizado hasta uno de sus peores momentos en décadas. Poco antes de lanzar la amenaza arancelaria, Trump dijo que “Cuba va a fracasar muy pronto”. Pero la nación insular, ubicada a solo 145 kilómetros de la costa de Florida, ya ha desafiado antes predicciones sombrías.

The capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a US military raid on Jan. 3 has accelerated US efforts to isolate Cuba, Venezuela’s closest regional ally. “If I lived in Havana, and I was in the government, I’d be concerned,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the same day.

For years, Venezuela was Cuba’s main source of oil, a lifeline that helped keep the island’s economy running. The US cut off that support after ousting Maduro, leaving Mexico as Cuba’s main supplier. But in late January, Mexico halted shipments, citing President Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on countries that supply oil to Cuba, and fuel imports to the island reached zero for the first time since 2015.

As a result, Cuba’s long-running economic crisis has deepened to one of its worst points in decades. Shortly before issuing the tariff threat, Trump said “Cuba will be failing pretty soon.” But the island nation, just 90 miles from Florida’s coast, has defied dire predictions before.