Aerial view of Jose Marti Worldwide Airport in Havana, taken from an airplane on April 3, 2025.
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The Cuban authorities mentioned worldwide airways can not refuel there as a result of gas shortages after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any nation that provides the communist nation with oil.
The island nation’s management mentioned Sunday that Cuba will run out of aviation gas from Monday, doubtless disrupting operations airways working there, based on EFE information company, citing two sources.
The kerosene scarcity is predicted to persist for the subsequent 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, mentioned the Cuban authorities constituted “an uncommon and extraordinary risk,” which required a nationwide emergency declaration.
The U.S. president mentioned that Cuba’s ties to international locations 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 mentioned U.S. tariffs might goal international locations that gives any oil to Cuba, whether or not instantly 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 power disaster, Cuba on Friday outlined intensive measures designed to guard important companies and ration gas provides for key sectors.
The plan reportedly contains restrictions on gas gross sales, the closure of some vacationer institutions, shortening college days, and a discount of the working week in state-owned corporations to 4 days, from Monday to Thursday.
Russia, which holds pleasant ties with Cuba, mentioned Monday that Havana’s gas state of affairs was “really important” and that U.S. makes an attempt to additional strain the nation have been inflicting quite a few issues.
“The state of affairs in Cuba is really important. We all know this. We’re in intensive contact with our Cuban associates by means of diplomatic and different channels. Certainly, to illustrate the U.S.’s stranglehold is inflicting many difficulties for the nation,” Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov advised reporters on Monday, based on 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 mentioned the nation’s management condemned Washington’s tariff threats within the “strongest doable phrases.”
In an announcement posted on Jan. 30, Parrilla additionally accused the U.S. authorities of resorting to “blackmail and coercion in an try to make different international locations to affix its universally condemned blockade coverage in opposition to Cuba.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum mentioned final week that her authorities would intention to ship humanitarian support to Cuba from Monday, including that the nation is working to discover a diplomatic resolution 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.
