cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41550338

By Dave Sherwood and Marianna Parraga
January 11, 2026 11:31 AM EST updated 11:38 ET

Summary

  • Cuba has the right to import fuel from any suppliers, foreign minister says
  • Venezuela was Cuba’s largest supplier last year with some 26,500 barrels per day of crude and fuel
  • Mexico is emerging as alternative oil supplier to the island
  • Cuban president says Cuba prepared to “defend homeland to last drop of blood.”
  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    My issue with US’s relationship with Cuba is that the US doesn’t want a Russian outpost so close, yet doesn’t do anything to make the island stable enough to resist outside influence.

    • N0t_5ure@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      yet doesn’t do anything to make the island stable enough to resist outside influence.

      Trump’s plan: make Marco Rubio governor of Cuba, the 51st state.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      US doesn’t want a Russian outpost

      Is that what Guantanamo Bay is for? To beat back the Russian invasion?

      Cause I remember it being used for something different

    • Bullerfar@lemmy.world
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      And also cutting all foreign aid in general now. Which leaves US soft power where exactly? That’s right, US is the bad guy as well now.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Cuba has been the end game for Trump since his first term. Any liberal who continues to endorse and support the blockade is as MAGA as the rest of these chuds