Cuba is reeling. Hardly a drop of oil has been delivered to the island in the last three months, its president has confirmed.
According to CNN, fuel prices have skyrocketed to US$9 a liter on the unofficial market, meaning it costs more than US$300 to fill a car’s gas tank — more than most Cubans earn in a year.
The energy crisis caused the island’s electrical grid to collapse this week, plunging the country into a total blackout.
U.S. President Donald Trump is sensing blood. Cuba is there “for the taking,” he enthused this week, boasting that he will have the “great honor” of leading this. The U.S. blockade is clearly working, and Trump knows it.
“It’s a failed nation. They have no money, they have no oil, they have no nothing … I think I can do anything I want with it.”
The message coming from the Mexican government is an entirely different one.
“Our Cuban brothers and sisters are suffering,” President Claudia Sheinbaum sympathized at the weekend, highlighting Mexico’s “historical solidarity” with Cuba. The flow of humanitarian aid for Cuba will continue, she said, while acknowledging that getting supplies through has not been easy.
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