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Why Trump's Venezuela Strike May Have Been About Cuba as Much as It Was About Oil

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Nicolas Maduro’s capture has effectively taken away Cuba’s closest ally.

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The oil vessel Ocean Mariner left on Monday from Coatzacoalcos, in the Mexican State of Veracruz, on its way to Havana and is scheduled to arrive on the island during the afternoon of this Thursday. It could be one more of the thousands of boats that daily transport crude in the world, but this Liberian-flagged ship carries a load of barrels of Mexican oil that could give Cuba the energy needed to survive another day. Following the attack by the…

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Washington puts an end to the flow of Venezuelan crude that for more than two decades sustained the Cuban energy system and leaves Havana without its main structural support, according to an intelligence report that ABC has had access to. The United States has cut the energy umbilical cord that for more than two decades supported Cuba from Venezuela. That is the central conclusion of an intelligence report that ABC has had access to and that det…

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This change has been confirmed with the arrival in Havana of shipments from Mexican state facilities Pemex.

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While the official speech insists that there are not enough resources to strengthen the security or alleviate the economic pressure of the families, the government of Mexico maintained the shipment of subsidized fuel to Cuba , using public resources that stopped entering the national finances. According to information documented by Mexicans against Corruption , one of the last shipments of 2025 arrived in Havana on December 23, when the oil vess…

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enteratemexico.com broke the news in on Wednesday, January 7, 2026.
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