Overview
- The presidential order authorizes additional tariffs on U.S. imports from any nation that directly or indirectly sells oil to Cuba.
- Mexico said it will seek details of the measure and warned of risks to hospitals and food supplies, and state oil firm Pemex halted at least one delivery.
- Cuba’s president Miguel Díaz-Canel denounced the step as “criminal,” and the foreign minister condemned what he called a new escalation.
- Venezuela has already stopped preferential shipments to Cuba, removing a source that previously covered roughly one third of Havana’s imports.
- The island is in a severe energy crunch with frequent power cuts that can last 12 hours or more, raising the stakes of further supply losses.