Cuba is out of oil. But Trump will struggle to take advantage

Cuba is out of oil. Or at least that’s what it said on Wednesday.

In the past, Donald Trump would be rubbing his hands with glee, but the timing couldn’t be worse for the US President, with his war with Iran occupying the US military and damaging his political standing back home ahead of critical midterm elections in November.

“We have absolutely no fuel, we have absolutely no diesel,” said Vicente de la O Levy, the head of Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines. The country is suffering blackouts of up to 22 hours a day, and Havana residents have taken to banging pots and pans in protest.

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“This dramatic worsening has a single cause: the genocidal energy blockade to which the United States subjects our country, threatening irrational tariffs against any nation that supplies us with fuel,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez wrote on X.