The island nation will not be getting any oil from Venezuela, the US president has said<\/p>\n
Cuba is about to collapse \u201cpretty soon,\u201d US President Donald Trump has claimed. His words came amid reports that Washington is planning a total oil blockade of the island nation in a bid to instigate a coup against President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
\nAfter abducting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month, the US has set its sights on Cuba, which Trump claims is \u201cready to fall\u201d next. Speaking to reporters during a trip to Iowa on Tuesday, the US president stated that \u201cCuba is really a nation that is very close to falling.\u201d According to the president, Havana was getting oil and money from Caracas, but that it would not be getting them \u201canymore.\u201d
\nShortly after Maduro\u2019s kidnapping, Trump said Washington would \u201crun\u201d Venezuela during a transitional period and needs \u201ctotal access\u2026 to the oil and to other things in their country.\u201d US Energy Secretary Chris Wright has stated that Washington intends to control Venezuela\u2019s oil sales \u201cindefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n
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US considering total Cuba oil blockade \u2013 Politico<\/p>\n
Venezuela\u2019s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, who was sworn in after Maduro\u2019s capture, declared that no \u201cforeign agent\u201d would control Venezuela or turn it into a \u201ccolony.\u201d She still tried to placate Washington by opening Venezuela\u2019s oil sector to American companies.
\nLast week, Politico reported that the US was planning an oil blockade of Cuba to place it in a \u201cchokehold to kill the regime.\u201d Earlier, the Wall Street Journal also reported that Washington was looking for Cuban government insiders to help orchestrate a regime-change operation by the end of the year.
\nCuba has been under a US trade embargo since the 1960s, but it has not faced the prospect of an American naval blockade since 1962, when President John F. Kennedy placed it under \u201cquarantine\u201d for 13 days to prevent the transfer of Soviet missiles to the Cuban military.
\nDiaz-Canel earlier dismissed Trump\u2019s threats by saying that \u201cnobody dictates what we do.\u201d Moscow also condemned what it called the \u201clanguage of blackmail and threats\u201d against Cuba as well as decades of \u201cillegitimate and illegal sanctions\u201d by the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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