Aerial view of Jose Marti Worldwide Airport in Havana, taken from an airplane on April 3, 2025.
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The Cuban authorities stated worldwide airways can not refuel there resulting from gas shortages after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any nation that provides the communist nation with oil.
The kerosene scarcity is predicted to persist for the following month, with all of Cuba’s worldwide airports affected.
Cuba’s International Ministry and the Cuban Embassy in London didn’t instantly reply to a CNBC request for remark.
Trump, in an government order issued on the finish of January, stated the Cuban authorities constituted “an uncommon and extraordinary risk,” which required a nationwide emergency declaration.
The U.S. president stated that Cuba’s ties to nations together with China, Russia and Iran, human rights violations and communist management destabilize the area “by means of migration and violence.”
As a part of the announcement, Trump stated U.S. tariffs could goal nations that gives any oil to Cuba, whether or not immediately or not directly.
The Trump administration has sought to tighten the U.S. chokehold on Cuba since Jan. 3, when it carried out an audacious army operation to depose Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a long-time ally of Cuba’s authorities.
Russia: Gas state of affairs in Cuba is ‘important’
Gripped by a deepening vitality disaster, Cuba on Friday outlined in depth measures designed to guard important companies and ration gas provides for key sectors.
The plan reportedly consists of restrictions on gas gross sales, the closure of some vacationer institutions, shortening faculty days, and a discount of the working week in state-owned firms to 4 days, from Monday to Thursday.
Russia, which holds pleasant ties with Cuba, stated Monday that Havana’s gas state of affairs was “actually important” and that U.S. makes an attempt to additional strain the nation had been inflicting quite a few issues.
“The state of affairs in Cuba is actually important. We all know this. We’re in intensive contact with our Cuban buddies by means of diplomatic and different channels. Certainly, as an instance the U.S.’s stranglehold is inflicting many difficulties for the nation,” Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov informed reporters on Monday, in keeping with state information outlet RIA Novosti.
Pedestrians stroll previous the Habana Libre Lodge, previously the Havana Hilton, in Havana on February 2, 2026. Tourism in Cuba suffered a pointy setback in 2025.
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Cuba’s International Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla beforehand stated the nation’s management condemned Washington’s tariff threats within the “strongest potential phrases.”
In a press release posted on Jan. 30, Parrilla additionally accused the U.S. authorities of resorting to “blackmail and coercion in an try and make different nations to affix its universally condemned blockade coverage towards Cuba.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated final week that her authorities would goal to ship humanitarian support to Cuba from Monday, including that the nation is working to discover a diplomatic answer to renew oil shipments to the Caribbean island.
Mexico had paused shipments of crude and refined merchandise to Cuba amid strain from the Trump administration.
