The Cuban government said international airlines can no longer refuel there due to fuel shortages after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that supplies the communist country with oil.
The island nation’s leadership said Sunday that Cuba will run out of aviation fuel from Monday, likely disrupting operations airlines operating there, according to EFE news agency, citing two sources.
The kerosene shortage is expected to persist for the next month, with all of Cuba’s international airports affected.
Cuba’s Foreign Ministry and the Cuban Embassy in London did not immediately respond to a CNBC request for comment.
Trump, in an executive order issued at the end of January, said the Cuban government constituted “an unusual and extraordinary threat,” which required a national emergency declaration.
