U.S. says Cuba is prohibited from taking Russian oil as two tankers head to island

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/20/cuba-crisis-fuel-tankers-russia-oil-gas-energy-us-trump.html

The U.S. Treasury Department has made clear that Cuba is not allowed to take delivery of Russian crude.

The warning comes at a time when two tankers carrying Russian oil and gas are thought to be on their way to Havana.

The fuel-starved Caribbean island is facing its biggest test since the collapse of the Soviet Union under a U.S. oil blockade.

The U.S. Treasury Department has said Cuba won’t be allowed to take delivery of Russian crude, even as the fuel-starved island appears poised to receive two tankers carrying oil and gas.

In a general license published Thursday, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added Cuba to a list of countries that would be blocked from transactions involving the sale, delivery or offloading of crude or petroleum products that originate from Russia.

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Cuba’s Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio told reporters at a press conference on Friday in Havana that “the political system of Cuba is not up for negotiation, and of course neither the president nor the position of any official in Cuba ​is subject to negotiation with the United States,” Reuters reported.

[malaise]

1. Huh?

That is all

[leftstreet]

2. Block oil in Hormuz bad. Block oil in Cuba good

Will Russia send escorts with those tankers?

[orangecrush]

5. ...

[Renew Deal]

3. Why does the US have a say?

Let’s see if they’re willing to take the ships. Though that would be a bold, stupid, and inhumane move.

[malaise]

4. Meanwhile

The definition of shameless imperialist bullies
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221112525

Fuck this shit

[wnylib]

6. Might become an excuse for Trump to invade Cuba

because they didn't obey his orders.

[Justice matters.]

10. Why did Germany had a say (about foreign countries' businesses) pre-WWII?

Same Different Century.

[sop]

7. 'Cuba refuses to let US Embassy in Havana import diesel for its generators'

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Cuban government has refused a request by the U.S. Embassy in Havana to allow it to import diesel for its generators while the Trump administration continues to impose a fuel blockade on the island, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said Friday.

https://apnews.com/article/cuba-fuel-embassy-trump-blockade-dd5a11ac933daf258d3f689e7cbb822d

[Brother Buzz]

13. What, no solar or wind backup?

[underpants]

8. Let's see Trump stand up to Putin.

Yeah right.

[Rafi]

9. Well we missed nuclear war with Russia by a hair in 1962 over blockading Cuba.

Why not give it another chance.

[Melon]

11. Too muck too quick.

Cuba government is horrible and obviously not friends of the US, but it’s too much too quick. Cuba has no products and nothing we want. It’ll be a humanitarian disaster if it fully collapses.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Trump wants, in order: profit for Putin, a stabilized oil price for the US,

the overthrow of the Cuban state, and more dead Iranians. While he's happy for the US oil price to benefit most of the rest of the world (including the Iranians who live), he's buggered if he's going to let the suffering of the Cuban people get in the way of goal #3. They don't just get expensive oil - they get no oil at all.