cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44790291

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44790287

An effective U.S. oil blockade has worsened the island’s energy crisis. The U.S. Embassy in Havana, too, is feeling the effects.

March 20, 2026 https://archive.ph/N81ly

In a diplomatic note to the embassy, the ministry said the administration’s fuel blockade was aimed at “causing the greatest possible harm to the Cuban economy, the well-being of the people, and their standard of living.”

“The Ministry interprets as shameless the claim by the diplomatic mission to access a good as a privilege that it denies to the Cuban people,” the ministry said, according to a State Department translation. The note was dated March 9, the day the ministry received the request.

The United States and Cuba have been adversaries for 65 years. Officials in Washington and Havana have held direct talks aimed at resolving differences, Díaz-Canel said last week. The administration has not made its demands of Havana public.