The former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa (2007-2017) described the situation in Cuba as “criminal”, prevented from obtaining fuel supplies by the US blockadebut warned that they will not be able to destabilize the Cuban Government from within, and that an eventual invasion “would be another Vietnam for them.”
“Cuba, unlike Venezuela, does not have natural resources, and has always been dependent on hydrocarbons. Blocking it is criminal,” Correa commented in an interview with EFE.
“I see a Cuban people that has always known how to get ahead, but the damage is enormous. It is a town that has been left without electricity. What they are doing to it is criminal,” he added.
The former president acknowledged that what the US demonstrated in Venezuela, where President Nicolás Maduro was captured in a military operation on January 3, “should worry anyone” because “at a military level, US technology has decades of advantage over the rest.”
“The US can bomb Cuba, but they will not be able to invade it, that would be another Vietnam for them, and “They know that from within they will not be able to destabilize the regime.”said the leader of the Citizen Revolution party, the main opposition force currently in Ecuador to the government of right-wing President Daniel Noboa.
In January, the US ended the flow of Venezuelan oil to Cuba and, with a executive orderthreatened with tariffs on countries that supplied crude oil to the island, something that the White House recently put on pause, although it maintains the “national emergency” with respect to Cuba.
Since then, only one oil tanker has docked in the country, according to data compiled by EFE.
The Cuban Government launched a tough contingency plan to try to survive without imported oil, but this is tremendously complex because the island barely produces a third of the crude oil it needs to cover its energy needs.
No tariffs, but Washington can prolong the energy siege of Cuba with other tools
