U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on countries supplying oil to Cuba, escalating Washington’s pressure campaign on the Caribbean nation.
The proposed tariffs were outlined in an executive order, though specific rates and targeted countries remain unspecified.
President Trump has repeatedly threatened action against Cuba and its communist leadership.
On Tuesday, the President suggested Cuba “will be falling pretty soon,” noting that long-time ally Venezuela has recently ceased oil and financial aid. Previously, Venezuela reportedly supplied approximately 35,000 barrels of oil per day to the island.
Trump’s renewed focus on Cuba follows U.S. forces seizing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in a January 3 raid on Caracas.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez recently asserted the nation’s “absolute right to import fuel” from any willing exporter “without interference or subordination to the unilateral coercive measures of the United States.”
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