By limonta on Skatehive
Two tankers carrying Russian crude oil and derivatives that potentially have Cuba as their destination place even more spotlight on the Island, whose population is massively suffering the effects of an implacable escalation in the application of a 66-year-old U.S. sanctions regime. The Trump administration cut Venezuelan crude supply to Havana after the overthrow of Maduro—now imprisoned in New York—at the beginning of the year, and then threatened enough its neighbor, Mexico, another close ally of Cuba, to suspend its shipments as well. It later issued an executive order targeting with tariffs any nation eager to supply crude to Cuba. (After a Supreme Court ruling banning it for relying on the IEEPA, it had to eliminate this particular measure, while leaving the rest of the order in place.) Although it has never been confirmed, the New York Times stated last month that, in practice, there is a formal naval blockade declaration to prevent fuel from entering Cuba, a country that is not