Gas station in Havana, 27 January 2026. © AP / Ramon Espinosa
U.S. president Donald Trump declared a state of emergency and threatened to impose advanced tariffs on any country supplying oil to Cuba, which dramatically increased the force on Havana after US military operations in Venezuela cut off an island country from its most crucial origin of energy.
After the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro at the beginning of this month, The United States has chosen Cuba as its target, which Trump claims is “ready to fall."
In the implementing regulation signed on Thursday, Trump named Cuba "an different and extraordinary threat" for U.S. national security.
"United States does not tolerate looting by Communist Cuban regime" – reads the regulation.
"I believe that the policies, practices and actions of the Cuba government straight endanger the security, national safety and abroad policy of the United States".
The Regulation establishes a mechanics for imposing advanced additional duties on imports from each country caught on direct or indirect sales or supply of oil to Havana.
It grants broad powers to the State Secretarys and Trade Secretaries to identify violations and urge to the president the amount of duties.
This regulation formalises and exacerbates the actual energy blockade, which has been exacerbating for weeks.
The U.S. military operation that captured Maduro at the beginning of this period cut off the main oil origin for Cuba.
The next force on Mexico, the last oil supplier to Havana, led the island to dramatic shortages.
Trump predicted on Tuesday that the Cuban government "soon to fall", boasting that cutting off Venezuelan oil and gross from it led Havana to the edge of the abyss.
According to Kpler, Cuba remained oil reserves for only 15 to 20 days.
The country is already struggling with regular supply interruptions, and analysts inform against economical collapse and humanitarian crisis without rapidly completing its supply.
The White House, in an information note, presented the state of emergency as a essential reaction to harmful activities, accusing Cuba of hosting “the largest Russian abroad electronic intelligence centre’ and ensuring ‘safe environment’ for terrorist groups.
He besides accused Havana of spreading "communist" influences in the Western hemisphere.
Cuba's president Miguel Diaz-Canel remained steadfast, stating at the beginning of this week that "The harshness of the present times and the brutality of threats against Cuba will not halt us."
Cuba has been covered by the American trade embargo since the 1960s, but since 1962, erstwhile it was then president John F. Kennedy put 13 days on it. ‘quarantine’To prevent russian missiles being transferred to the Cuban army, she did not encounter the possible of naval blockade.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/631738-trump-cuba-oil-emergency-tariffs/
