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@DropSiteNews
January 29, 2026
JUST IN | President Trump has signed a sweeping executive order declaring Cuba an "unusual and extraordinary threat" and authorizing broad new sanctions, including punishing foreign countries that sell oil to the island, even indirectly. The move comes as the Financial Times reports Cuba has just 15–20 days of oil left, after US pressure helped halt Venezuelan shipments and Mexico’s Pemex suspended a delivery. The shortage has already fueled near-daily blackouts and fuel rationing. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that her government provides oil to Cuba via contracts with Pemex and via humanitarian aid mechanisms, the latter she said would continue. The order tightens a blockade strategy that leverages economic collapse and humanitarian crisis under the guise of national security.
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@BrunoRguezP (Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs)
January 30, 2026
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the new #US escalation against #Cuba. Now the US government intends to impose a total blockade on Cuba's fuel supplies. In order to justify that, it resorts to a long list of lies with the purpose of portraying Cuba as a threat, which it actually is not. Every day there are new evidence showing that the only threat to peace, security and stability in the region and the only malignant influence is the one exerted by the US government against the peoples and nations of our America. It intends to submit them to its dictates, deprive them of their resources, mutilate their sovereignty and deprive them of their independence. The US government is also resorting to blackmail and coercion in an attempt to make other countries to join its universally condemned blockade policy against Cuba; and if they refuse to do so, it is threatening to apply arbitrary and abusive tariffs in violation of all free trade rules. We denounced to the world this brutal act of aggression against Cuba and its people on which it has imposed, for more than 65 years, the longest-lasting and most cruel blockade ever imposed against an entire nation and which it now has committed to subject to extreme living conditions.
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If Cuba falls, the Global South is to blame, too
By Belén Fernández, Al Jazeera columnist, 29 Jan 2026
As the United States tightens the screws, Cuba’s supposed allies respond with nothing but empty gestures and selective solidarity.
Full article: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/29/if-cuba-falls-the-global-south-is-to-blame-too
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