Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister denounces the intensification of the blockade on oil supplies to Cuba

The Trump administration is considering new measures to promote regime change in Cuba, including a possible total blockade on oil imports to the country, according to Politico, citing three sources familiar with the plan.

Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío denounced the recent leaks and speculation on Friday.

The Cuban diplomat described this intention as a brutal assault on a peaceful nation that poses no threat to the United States, noting that such measures are irrefutable proof that the economic hardships faced by the Cuban people are mainly caused and designed by Washington.

He recalled that figures such as current Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former National Security Advisor John Bolton already misled Trump in 2019 into ordering a similar blockade, an action that was halted at the time by national security agencies that considered such a course of unjustifiable confrontation to be irresponsible and dangerous.

The revival of these threats in 2026 is evidence of the resurgence of a hostile policy that seeks to bring about the country's energy collapse through international piracy. This warning comes in a context of sovereign resistance by the Global South to the aggressive unilateralism of the Republican administration.

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