Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧US Oil Blockade of #Venezuela Pushes #Cuba Toward Collapse
The #Communist-ruled island was already suffering from food shortages, blackouts and an exodus of people; now it faces the loss of cheap oil from Nicolás Maduro
from Wall Street Journal
Dec. 21, 2025
https://groups.io/g/cubanews/message/46177
[WSJ is a sworn enemy of the Cuban Revolution, but article still has many important facts worth reading.]
Cubans are going hungry, suffering from spreading disease and sleeping outdoors with no electricity to power fans through the sweltering nights. A quarter of the population has fled during the island’s most prolonged economic crisis.
And it’s about to get worse.
The #US is ratcheting up pressure on Havana’s key benefactor, Venezuelan strongman #NicolásMaduro’s regime, which has kept the Communist-ruled nation afloat with cheap oil. Now Venezuelan oil exports are at risk thanks to a partial blockade targeting sanctioned tankers...
Jackie