Cuba on edge as US seizure of oil tanker puts supply at risk
[https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/cuba-edge-us-seizure-oil-tanker-puts-supply-risk-2025-12-12/]
from #Reuters
By Dave Sherwood and Marianna Parraga
December 12, 2025 2:14 PM ESTSummary
- Seizure threatens #Cuba’s oil supply from #Venezuela, may worsen economic crisis
- Venezuela’s oil covers about 50% of Cuba’s deficit, loss may strain energy infrastructure
- Diaz-Canel calls #US tanker seizure ‘piracy’
- Cuba to fast-track the building of solar parks
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#HandsOffVenezuela
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#news #politics #USpol
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Ah. Now it makes sense.
The amount of oil in a single tanker isn’t likely to affect the US market much. But preventing Cuba from having access to oil would look pretty attractive to a government that’s terrified of a successful socialist nation
I think the socialist part of that has thoroughly proved to not be successful given the recent struggles on top of all prior ones.
Surely the 50+ year long embargo preventing them from commerce and trade with half the world had absolutely no bearing on that whatsoever.
What part of “government terrified of successful socialist country” didn’t make sense to you?
The US has actively been sabotaging Cuba for 70 years. The fact that they’re doing as well as they are speaks volumes about how well they’d be doing without a super power trying it’s hardest to drive them in to obscurity.
So what are you arguing? That Cuba isn’t socialist or that they aren’t “successful”?