US EditionWSJ: Life in Cuba Is Grinding to a Halt Under U.S. Oil Blockade
The US cut off Venezuela's oil to Cuba, causing power outages and risking hospital fuel shortages, with sanctions threatening countries aiding Cuba, officials warned.
- President Donald Trump ordered the cutoff of Venezuelan oil to Cuba, leaving families facing blackouts and risking Cuba's healthcare system, which could soon halt without fuel.
- Longstanding U.S. measures, including a decadeslong embargo, provide context as President Donald Trump said last month he aims to punish the Cuban government and described it as 'an unusual and extraordinary threat' to the U.S. and Cuban officials have condemned the accusations.
- US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned `What has transpired is that now it's kind of become acceptable that the entire Western world will look the other way as they starve and deprive a people because they find political actors or political regimes in that country to be objectionable`. Trita Parsi echoed these concerns, citing human-rights risks.
- Analysts said the episode highlights a wider debate over U.S. foreign-policy consistency and international norms, as US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared Trump's attack on Cuba to Gaza's catastrophe since 2023, noting Israel's military killed more than 71,000 Palestinians.
- Sanctions experts say measures should target officials, not entire populations, and Pierre-Emmanuel Dupont warned the fuel cutoff risks imminent humanitarian collapse for the civilian population in Cuba, saying `Sanctions should be expected to be limited to officials`.
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Life in Cuba Is Grinding to a Halt Under U.S. Oil Blockade
US blockade deepens Cuba energy crisis
The United States has effectively severed Cuba’s access to its primary petroleum sources in Venezuela and Mexico through political pressure. The Caribbean nation is reeling from a US-ordered halt in oil shipments from Caracas after American troops captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro last month. FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell reports.
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As the U.S.’s extremist blockade on Cuba pushes the country to the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) has said that the world has entered a “new era of depravity” in which such actions are ignored by world powers due to the heinous precedent set by the Gaza genocide. “This is what we’ve seen with Gaza — this is a new era of depravity opened up… Source
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This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Feb. 10, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. As the Cuban government announced Monday that the Trump administration’s oil blockade on the country would soon leave airlines without jet fuel, US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that the international community has become far too accepting of acts of economic warfare that collectively punish an entire pop…
Life in Cuba Is Grinding to a Halt
“Daily life in Cuba is grinding to a halt under a U.S. campaign to block the island’s oil imports, drawing international criticism that the Trump administration is pushing the island toward a humanitarian crisis with no clear endgame,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The Caribbean island’s Communist authorities are rationing dwindling fuel supplies, curtailing public transportation and furloughing workers. Children are being sent home from sch…
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