The US president once again alludes to the serious energy crisis that the Island is going through.
MIAMI, United States. – The president of the United States, Donald Trump, stated this Tuesday that Cuba “will fail very soon” due to the loss of the energy and financial support it received from Venezuela. The statements were made before reporters during a visit to a restaurant in Urbandale, Iowa, in the context of an escalation of pressure from Washington on the Havana regime.
trump told reporters: “Cuba will collapse very soon. Cuba is really a nation that is very close to collapse.” In that same exchange, the president stressed that Havana depended on Caracas: “They got their money from Venezuela, they got their oil from Venezuela, they are no longer receiving it.”
This Tuesday’s words add to other warnings issued by Trump weeks before. On January 11, the president published in Truth Social that there would be “no more oil or money” for the Cuban government and suggested that Havana should “make a deal” with Washington. In the same publication, he added: “Cuba lived, for many years, on large quantities of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela.”
In response, the Cuban dictator, Miguel Díaz-Canel, rejected pressure from Washington in a publication in
Currently, the Island is experiencing blackouts of up to 22 hours a day and a serious energy crisis that the Cuban Government attributes, in large part, to US sanctions. After the fall of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, the crisis is expected to worsen even more.
In this context, it emerged that Mexico had become the largest supplier of oil to the Island. However, the shipment of fuel from the Aztec country also seems to be in danger: this Tuesday, President Claudia Sheinbaum did not deny reports of a suspension of oil shipments to Cuba and stressed that these were “sovereign” decisions that are made when the Government considers it necessary, in a context of internal review for fear of retaliation from Washington.
