cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41550338
By Dave Sherwood and Marianna Parraga
January 11, 2026 11:31 AM EST updated 11:38 ETSummary
- 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.”
There really are little to no economic concessions Cuba can make, given the status of the blockade on the country. If the “deal” was just to let Trump build his own hotels on the island or something, Cuba might even accept that. Given this and who is in Trump’s cabinet, I think it’s reasonable to assume the only “deal” on the table is to accept being governed as US colony with Rubio as the viceroy.
As brutal as cutting off oil from Venezuela will be, the Cuban people got through the Special Period, I think they will survive Trump.
“defend homeland to last drop of blood.” imagine if the american people
did thisjoined them for their own humanity in their own country.
