Overview
- Cuba’s energy ministry says a warehouse blaze at Havana’s Ñico López refinery was extinguished without injuries and the cause is under investigation.
- The UK issued new travel advice after Cuban authorities reported no aviation fuel at international airports, triggering flight cancellations and refueling diversions.
- Authorities have imposed emergency rationing with shortened workweeks, reduced school hours, slashed public transport, and hospital staffing cuts to preserve fuel.
- Following the cutoff of Venezuelan shipments, a White House order threatening tariffs on any country supplying oil to Cuba has deterred deliveries, with no foreign tankers reported for weeks.
- Mexico has paused oil exports under U.S. pressure but sent two navy ships delivering more than 800 tonnes of humanitarian aid as regional diplomatic pressure grows.