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The White House said the move was a one-off humanitarian decision, not a shift in US policy, even as Cuba continues to struggle with months of fuel shortages.
Donald Trump said he would not object to a sanctioned Russian oil tanker delivering fuel to Cuba, even as his administration keeps up heavy pressure on the island and its battered energy system.
Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel said Raul Castro is taking part in early-stage discussions with the United States, while an oil blockade linked to US policy has left Cuba suffering repeated nationwide blackouts and prompted warnings of a humanitarian crisis.
A US oil blockade has cut fuel supplies to Cuba, leaving an aging electricity system struggling. Frequent blackouts are already disrupting daily life and could create deeper humanitarian and political consequences, say observers and media reports.
International aid convoys are arriving in Cuba to protest a U.S. fuel blockade as the island copes with long blackouts and heightened threats of a takeover. The Cuban government is bracing for possible military confrontation. A new episode of The Take explores how close this pressure is bringing the island to a breaking point.
A Russian tanker steaming for Cuba is less about fuel and more about sending a message to Washington. Analysts say it is a provocation and a bargaining chip, not a rescue mission.
A national blackout in mid-March exposed how U.S. fuel restrictions, higher global oil prices and regional political pressure are pushing Cuba into a deep humanitarian and political crisis. Ordinary people are paying the price while diplomacy, back-channel talks and bold rhetoric decide the next moves.
Protesters gathered at the US embassy in Madrid on 23 March 2026, blaming US sanctions for a power blackout in Cuba and calling for an end to US intervention in Latin America and the Middle East.
Protests are sweeping Cuba, but treating Havana like Caracas is a shortcut that misses the island's history, politics and economics. Here’s a clearer, less noisy look at what’s happening and why simple answers from Washington won’t fix it.
Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez said he would grab his AKM and fight if the United States mounted a military intervention, part of a growing verbal clash between Havana and Washington.
After a nationwide grid collapse on Monday, electricity is being restored across Cuba, but long-standing fuel and infrastructure problems plus ongoing US oil restrictions mean the country faces a bigger energy headache ahead.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel says Cuban negotiators quietly met with US officials to try to ease an energy blockade that has left parts of the island without power and forced thousands of postponed surgeries.