HAVANA: Cuba detailed a wide-ranging plan on Friday to protect essential services and ration fuel as the communist-run government dug in its heels in defiance of a US effort to cut off oil supply to the Caribbean island. The rationing measures are the first to be announced since President Donald Trump threatened to slap tariffs on the US-bound products of any country exporting fuel to Cuba and suggested hard times ahead for Cubans already suffering severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine.

Warning comes as US threatens tariffs on any country that supplies oil to the Caribbean island.

The shortage has led to blackouts across the Caribbean nation.

HAVANA: Cuba detailed a wide-ranging plan on Friday to protect essential services and ration fuel as the communist-run government dug in its heels in defiance of a US effort to…

US pressure pushes island nation's 11 million people to the brink as Cuba imposes emergency measures amid fuel crisis.

The update comes shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that supplies Cuba with oil.

MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Monday that the fuel situation in Cuba, which has set out a wide-ranging plan to protect essential services and ration fuel, was critical and that…

Airlines from as far away as Russia, China and Spain have also been affected as island nation warns of fuel shortage

Cuban foreign minister accuses US of trying to break the 'political will' of Cubans, hints at diplomacy with Washington.