US EditionTrump reverses course on Cuban oil blockade, allows Russian tanker to pass
The U.S. reversed its oil blockade, allowing the Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin to deliver 730,000 barrels of crude, easing Cuba's energy crisis after three months without oil imports.
- On Monday, the US administration allowed the sanctioned Russian-flagged tanker Anatoly Kolodkin to proceed to Cuba, marking a rare pause in Washington's de facto fuel blockade of the energy-starved island.
- Washington's fuel blockade intensified after the January 3 capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, which cut off Cuba's primary oil supplier and triggered severe fuel rationing, blackouts, and nationwide shortages across the island.
- Carrying approximately 730,000 barrels of crude, the tanker is expected to reach Matanzas by Tuesday, with energy analyst Jorge Piñón estimating the cargo could yield 250,000 barrels of diesel—enough to cover about 12.5 days of demand.
- President Donald Trump stated he has "no problem" with the delivery, telling reporters, "the people need heat and cooling," while maintaining the shipment will not fundamentally alter Cuba's deteriorating energy crisis.
- Analysts warn the shipment offers only temporary relief, not a permanent solution, as the administration continues pressuring Cuba's government while managing geopolitical implications of the vessel's arrival off Florida's coast.
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The Washington Hispanic
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said this Sunday that he does not care that Cuba receives crude oil from a Russian oil tanker in the vicinity of the island: "They have to survive! (...) I have no problem," he said. In statements to reporters aboard the presidential plane this Sunday, Trump rejected that the arrival of crude oil in Cuba would have any impact on the current situation on the island and said that the Caribbean gove…
Rutland Herald
The Daily SentinelCuba to receive a sanctioned Russian oil tanker as it struggles under US blockade
Cuba is preparing to receive a sanctioned Russian oil tanker as the island struggles under a U.S. oil blockade. Cuban authorities say the tanker is due to arrive on Monday at the port of Matanzas. It comes a day after…
Either Donald Trump became complacent, or took pity on Cuba and is making a humanitarian gesture.On Monday, Russian oil tanker Anatoly Kolodkin arrived at the port of Matanzas, in Cuba, in what means the first time in three months that he arrives raw on the island, in the midst of a blockade maintained by the United States fleet, with a view to drowning and forcing the collapse of the Havana regime. Anatoly Kolodkin loaded oil in the Russian por…
With a population of almost 10 million, the island has not imported oil since 9 January, the date of the last delivery of Mexico before the latter stopped fuel supplies
ashepostandtimes.com
Cubans ready for Russian oil but some say not enough
Cubans on Monday cautiously welcomed the imminent arrival of a Russian oil shipment, with some warning it would do little to ease an energy crisis after US President Donald Trump granted a reprieve from his oil blockade.
The White House spokesman said the U.S. allowed a Russian oil tanker to arrive in Cuba for "humanitarian reasons."
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