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Is Cuba next? What the fallout from the Iran war means for Havana

  • The U.S. imposed an oil blockade on Cuba in January after Nicolás Maduro was seized on Jan. 3, worsening Cuba's crisis and prompting UN warnings of a possible humanitarian collapse.
  • Claiming credit, Trump said he wanted a 'friendly takeover' of the island and stated: `Well, it's because of my intervention, intervention that is happening`.
  • Aviation fuel will be unavailable at nine airports until mid-March, prompting flight cuts, while millions of residents in western Cuba faced power failures yesterday and Cuban authorities rationed fuel to protect essential services.
  • Following the strikes, senior U.S. figures issued hawkish remarks about Cuba that heightened regional tensions, with Sen. Lindsey Graham saying, `This communist dictatorship in Cuba, their days are numbered.`
  • The Iran campaign may temporarily pull U.S. focus away from Cuba as the U.S. Treasury allowed resale of Venezuelan oil to Cuba's private sector last month to ease fuel shortages.
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has warned on Thursday that "Cuba will fall," an episode, he has emphasized, that it will be "the icing of the cake" after decades of US blockade, while he has boasted that the crisis that suffers the island is due to him. "Otherwise they would not have this problem," he said. "We cut off all the oil, all the money, everything that came from Venezuela, which was the only source," the president of…

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The US president has said that the energy crisis that the island is experiencing "is thanks" to his intervention. More information: Cuba suffers its biggest blackout in four years in full U.S. oil siege: two thirds of the island without light

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The Independent broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Thursday, March 5, 2026.
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