Cuba has run out of diesel and oil, energy minister says
Source: BBC
Cuba has completely run out of diesel and fuel oil, the country's Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy has said.
In an interview with state-run media, de la O Levy said there were limited amounts of gas available, but that Cuba's energy system was in a "critical" state as a US-led blockade of oil to the country squeezed supply.
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The US this week reiterated its offer of sending $100m (£74m) in aid to the country in exchange for "meaningful reforms to Cuba's communist system".
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Under the US blockade, parts of Havana have been plunged into 20 to 22-hour blackout periods, he continued.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7pyrj0vx7o
This, of course, is the massive foreign interference that The Rapist swore he wasn't going to do. Blocking the fuel that a country needs to survive to force a change in its system, when it does not threaten the USA in anyway (you may argue a different political system would be better for the average Cuban, but Trump is grabbing the power to change other countries as his whim changes).
GiqueCee
(4,686 posts)... Add this to the mile-long list of Crimes Against Humanity that the Orange Gargoyle has committed.
Is Hagrid In A Hoodie gonna try and defend this, too?
OldBaldy1701E
(11,505 posts)thesquanderer
(13,097 posts)Why is no one talking about how we are waging war on yet another country that posed no imminent threat?
And how is this any different from when people were saying that targeting Iran's energy infrastructure would constitute a war crime, because it would essentially be an attack on its civilian population?
sinkingfeeling
(58,013 posts)pfitz59
(12,900 posts)just so Cubano 'refugees' and mobsters can get their slaves and lucrative paradise back.